In adults with type 2 diabetes, long-term liraglutide treatment reduced measured GFR by 11 mL/min/1.73 m2 from baseline.
In plain wordsIn adults with type 2 diabetes, a year of liraglutide was linked to a reversible fall in kidney filtration rate.
- Peptide
- Liraglutide
- Outcome
- DecreaseGlomerular filtration rate (GFR) change
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Analysis
- Primary
- Outcome group
- Kidney function · Kidney and urinary
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · one-year extensionAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- GFR change
- −11 mL/min/1.73 m(2)
- liraglutide
Source sentences
Baseline GFR was 100.6 (24.9) mL/min/1.73 m(2) and was reduced by 11 (95% CI: 6.6-15.7, p < 0.001) mL/min/1.73 m(2), independent of change in 24-h systolic blood pressure (SBP), weight, UAER or HbA(1c) (p≥0.33).
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Primary outcome was change in GFR ((51)Cr-EDTA plasma clearance).
We included 30 patients in a one-year extension study, all initially treated with liraglutide for seven weeks.
During follow-up 23 were treated with liraglutide and seven untreated.