In newly diagnosed diabetes, exenatide treatment reduced body weight.
In plain wordsIn newly diagnosed diabetes, body weight decreased during exenatide treatment.
- Peptide
- Exenatide (exendin-4)
- Outcome
- DecreaseBody weight
- Study
n = 20
- Outcome group
- Body weight · Metabolic and weight
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · 24 weeksAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Weight change
- −4.7 kg
- exenatide
Source sentences
Patients treated with exenatide lost body weight remarkably (-4.7 ± 0.8 kg).
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
The present study was a two-center, randomized, parallel-group clinical trial.
Sixty-two newly diagnosed and drug-naïve patients with type 2 diabetes were randomized to exenatide (EXE, n = 20), mixed protamine zinc recombinant human insulin lispro injection (25R; INS, n = 21) or pioglitazone (PIO, n = 21) group for a 24-week treatment.