In adults with obesity, oral semaglutide 50 mg reduced ad libitum energy intake at week 20 compared with placebo.
In plain wordsIn adults with obesity, oral semaglutide reduced how much people ate at a meal compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Semaglutide
- Outcome
- DecreaseAd libitum energy intake, relative change from baseline at week 20
- Study
n = 61
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Analysis
- Primary
- Outcome group
- Appetite and food intake · Metabolic and weight
- Studied dose
- 50 mg once daily · oral · 20 weeksAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Relative change in energy intake
- −39.2 % points
- semaglutide versus placebo
Source sentences
The relative change from baseline in ad libitum energy intake at week 20 (primary endpoint) was -39.2% points (95% confidence interval -59.0%, -19.4%) with semaglutide compared with placebo.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
A clinical pharmacology, double-blind study was conducted in 61 adults with obesity randomized to once-daily oral semaglutide (dose-escalated to 50 mg) or placebo for 20 weeks.