The LEADER trial (liraglutide) and SUSTAIN-6 trial (semaglutide) demonstrated cardiovascular risk reduction over multi-year follow-up periods (approximately 3.8 years and 2.1 years, respectively)
Mechanistically, these benefits appear tightly linked to albuminuria reduction (Agarwal et al, Annals of IM 2023)
J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv
These include different GLP-1/GIP combinations with varying receptor affinity profiles, triple agonists that add glucagon activity, and oral formulations of dual agonists
Hers is the women-focused branch of Hims & Hers Health, Inc., which originally launched as Hims, a telehealth platform for people who identify as men
The effects were inhibited by coinfusion with exendin(939), a specific antagonist of the GLP-1R, indicating that active GLP-1 exerts its vascular protective effects through the classical GLP-1R, which is expressed in vascular smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells