In adults with type 2 diabetes, pooled GLP-1 receptor agonists lowered the risk of all-cause mortality by 11% versus placebo.
In plain wordsIn adults with type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 drugs as a class lowered the risk of death from any cause by 11% compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Liraglutide
- Outcome
- DecreaseAll-cause mortality
- Study
n = 21,135
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Mortality · Cardiovascular
Measurements
- Risk ratio
- 0.89 ratio
- all-cause mortality
Source sentences
The risk of all-cause mortality was lowered by 11% in patients receiving a GLP1RA (RR 0.89, 95% CI 0.81-0.99).
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
EMBASE, MEDLINE, and CENTRAL were searched (inception to September 2016) for randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of at least one year in duration that compared any GLP1RA to placebo in patients with type 2 diabetes.
In this study, Liraglutide was a lab tool or a carrier, part of a mix, or the subject of a lab method. This result is not evidence about taking Liraglutide.