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of Ozempic in real-time, as prescriptions of the appetite-suppressing drug explode into the millions worldwide., and now, experts are learning of the drug's potential benefits to kidney health, too.
Between June 2019 and May 2021, half the participants in the trial randomly received a small weekly dose of semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic. The other half received a placebo. "We would be saving kidneys, hearts, and lives in this population by making this drug available to them and that's quite extraordinary for one treatment to be able to do,""One of the most common causes of kidney disease is diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes, which has also been growing dramatically in recent decades."
Nevertheless, few trials have"recruited substantial numbers of participants with considerably reduced kidney function," Perkovic and his colleagues"The cardiovascular and survival benefits of semaglutide in such patients are particularly important, since they are among the populations at highest risk for cardiovascular disease and death," the teamSemaglutide is classified as a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, meaning it mimics a natural hormone in the human body to...
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