In adults with short bowel syndrome, glepaglutide reduced adjusted mean faecal output by 592 g/day from baseline (p=0·002).
In plain wordsIn adults with short bowel syndrome, glepaglutide reduced faecal output from baseline.
- Peptide
- Glepaglutide
- Outcome
- DecreaseFaecal wet weight output
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- Baseline
- Analysis
- Primary
- Outcome group
- Intestinal growth and absorption · Gastrointestinal
- Studied dose
- 1 mg daily · subcutaneous · 3 weeksAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Change in faecal wet weight output
- −592 g/day
- 1 mg glepaglutide, adjusted mean change from baseline
Source sentences
Treatment with 1 mg and 10 mg glepaglutide changed the adjusted mean faecal output by -592 g/day (95% CI -913 to -272; p=0·002) and -833 g/day (-1152 to -515; p=0·0002) from baseline, respectively.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Patients received daily subcutaneous injections of the first assigned dose of glepaglutide for 3 weeks, followed by a washout period of 4-8 weeks, and then the second dose of glepaglutide for 3 weeks.