In patients with diabetes, exenatide reduced body weight while glibenclamide increased it.
In plain wordsIn people with diabetes, exenatide reduced weight compared with weight gain with glibenclamide.
- Peptide
- Exenatide (exendin-4)
- Outcome
- DecreaseBody weight
- Study
n = 128
- Comparator
- glibenclamide
- Outcome group
- Body weight · Metabolic and weight
- Studied dose
- 5 microg twice a day titrated to 10 microg twice a day · 12 monthsAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
Body weight and BMI decreased with exenatide and increased with glibenclamide.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
One hundred twenty-eight patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus receiving therapy with metformin were randomized to take exenatide 5 microg twice a day or glibenclamide 2.5 mg three times a day and titrated to exenatide 10 microg twice a day or glibenclamide 5 mg three times a day.