Endocrinology

The future of obesity medicine is filled with promise as GLP-1 RAs and other peptides continue to demonstrate pluripotency in metabolic disease.

Crinecerfont approval makes available the first new treatment for the life-altering endocrine disorder in more than 70 years, according to Neurocrine Biosciences.

Donna Ryan, MD, highlights exciting advancements in weight loss and metabolic treatments, particularly involving GLP-1 RAs and related therapies.

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Donna Ryan, MD, highlights how the media has helped to reframe obesity as a chronic disease and how antiobesity drugs are transforming metabolic disease treatment.

Donna Ryan, MD, discusses the most significant clinical trials published this year in the field of obesity medicine.

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In a study of adults enrolled in a telehealth weight management program, 45% decreased their alcohol use after taking antiobesity medication.

The proposal would expand antiobesity drug access for more than 7 million people with Medicare and Medicaid coverage.

The investigational weight loss drug showed substantial weight loss among people with obesity or overweight with or without T2D without plateaus.

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Millions of US adults could benefit from semaglutide treatment for diabetes, obesity, and/or CV disease but insurance isn't guaranteed and the drug is costly.

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About 40% of people who have T1D are not aware of it until they experience an extreme health event; screening in primary care can help reduce the risk, support families.

A quick review of the scope of diabetes in the US and of the gaps in equitable access to care supports the annual call to action from the International Diabetes Federation.

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AHA 2024. "...we did not anticipate this magnitude of increase in mortality," researchers said. They were also surprised by the population groups most affected.

Dual and triple incretin agonists continue to lead the new therapies in the antiobesity pipeline. Here is an at-a-glance update of their progress toward approval.

The data, published in JASN, were presented last week to an FDA advisory committee considering recommending sotagliflozin as an adjunct to insulin in adults with T1D and CKD.

SYNCHRONIZE-1 and -2 will provide "robust evidence" on the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of survodutide in adults with obesity with or without T2D.

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ObesityWeek 2024. Semaglutide 2.4 mg reduces rates of composite CV outcomes in high-risk patients without diabetes and now is shown to reduce inpatient care and length of stay.

Results from the VENTURE phase 2 trial and a phase I oral formulation study found that VK2735, a dual GLP-1 and GIP receptor agonist, demonstrated promise in treating obesity.

Clinicians should continue to monitor trade-offs between pharmacologic and surgical management of obesity, researchers said.

The FDA's Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 11 to 3 against recommending the SGLT1/SLGT2 inhibitor to treat adults with T1D and CKD.