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Volume 3, Issue 10, Page 9 (October 2008)


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Liraglutide Helps Reduce Body Weight, HbA1c

MIRIAM E. TUCKER (Senior Writer)

ROME — The investigational, once-daily, human glucagon-like peptide-1 analog, liraglutide, produced a 1.5 percentage point drop in hemoglobin A1c, as well as significant drops in body weight and blood pressure, in a study of patients with type 2 diabetes who were also taking metformin and rosiglitazone.

PII: S1558-0164(08)70378-X

doi:10.1016/S1558-0164(08)70378-X


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