In adults with type 2 diabetes, 16 weeks of liraglutide increased stress myocardial blood flow.
In plain wordsIn adults with type 2 diabetes, liraglutide raised heart muscle blood flow under stress after 16 weeks.
- Peptide
- Liraglutide
- Outcome
- IncreaseStress myocardial blood flow
- Study
n = 41
- Outcome group
- Heart function · Cardiovascular
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · 16 weeksAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Stress myocardial blood flow
- 1.62 mL/g/min
- before liraglutide
- Stress myocardial blood flow
- 2.08 mL/g/min
- after liraglutide
Source sentences
Liraglutide treatment increased stress myocardial blood flow (1.62 mL/g/min [95% CI: 1.19-1.75 mL/g/min] to 2.08 mL/g/min [95% CI: 1.57-2.24 mL/g/min]; P = 0.01)
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Forty-one patients with T2D (age 63 years [95% CI: 59-68 years], 27 [66%] male, body mass index 27.8 kg/m2) [95% CI: 26.1-29.5 kg/m2)]) without cardiovascular disease were randomized to liraglutide or pioglitazone for a 16-week treatment followed by an 8-week washout and a furt…