In Japanese patients with diabetes, nausea occurred in 12/33 (36.4%) with two-step lixisenatide versus 18/36 (50.0%) with one-step lixisenatide.
In plain wordsIn Japanese patients with diabetes, nausea was less frequent with two-step lixisenatide than one-step lixisenatide through week 24.
- Peptide
- Lixisenatide
- Outcome
- DecreaseNausea through week 24
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- One-step lixisenatide dose-increase regimen
- Analysis
- Primary
- Outcome group
- Gastrointestinal adverse events · Gastrointestinal
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Measurements
- Patients with nausea
- 12 patients
- two-step
- Patients
- 33 patients
- two-step
- Incidence
- 36.4%
- two-step
- Patients with nausea
- 18 patients
- one-step
- Patients
- 36 patients
- one-step
- Incidence
- 50%
- one-step
Source sentences
As expected with treatment with a glucagon-like peptide-1 agonist, nausea was the most common treatment-emergent adverse event (2-step group: n=12/33 [36.4%] vs 1-step group: n=18/36 [50.0%] up to week 24).
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
This 76-week, open-label, parallel-group study assessed the long-term safety of once-daily lixisenatide monotherapy in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Patients were randomized to receive lixisenatide in a 2-step or a 1-step dose-increase regimen.