A new treatment has been found to make patients with type 2 diabetes lose weight. The University of Leicester scholars, in fact, have noted how a weekly injection of Semaglutide makes them lose an average of about 10 kilos.
In research published in The Lancet, they show that two-thirds of type 2 patients, treated with a dose of 2.4 milligrams of this drug, led to a reduction of at least 5% of their body weight and achieved a significant improvement in control. blood sugar.
For more than a quarter of patients, however, the drop was 15% in their body weight.
"These results are exciting and represent a new era in weight management in people with type 2 diabetes - explains Melanie Davies, researcher who led the study - They mark a real paradigm shift in our ability to treat obesity. they bring us closer to what we see with more invasive surgery ".
The work was conducted at 149 sites in 12 countries in North America, Europe, South America, the Middle East, South Africa and Asia, involving 1,210 patients with type 2 diabetes whose treatment was not leading to sufficient glycemic control.
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