Weight Management

Shagun Bindlish, MD, board member of the American Diabetes Association, details available options for treating venous disease in patients with obesity.

ACC.24: Results of STEP HFpEF DM showed significant improvement in quality of life measures among adults with obesity-related HFpEF and type 2 diabetes.

ACC.2024: Two abstracts presented during the ACC Scientific Sessions indicate cardiologists are very hesitant to prescribe medical therapy for obesity.

The once daily tablet, VK2375, is headed to a phase 2 trial later this year and is an oral version of Viking's investigational injectable GLP-1/GIP mimetic currently in phase 2.

CMS says Medicare Part D plans will cover semaglutide for individuals with overweight/obesity who have preexisting CVD, a first after 40 years of legal prohibition.

The inaugural digital issue of Patient Care focuses on the antiobesity and type 2 diabetes medications, semaglutide and tirzepatide.

The label expansion for semaglutide, based on the SELECT trial, includes data showing reduced risk of CV death of 15% and of death from any cause of 19%.

The novel unimolecular pill amycretin combines a GLP-1 and an amylin agonist and led to weight loss of 13% at 12 weeks in a phase 1 trial that just concluded, the company said.

Obesity rates in the US over the 3 decades rose from 11.5% to 21.7% among boys and from 11.6% to 19.4% among girls. US men ranked 10th highest for obesity in 2022.

Viking's VENTURE trial met primary and all secondary endpoints, with GI-related TAEAs reported as mild/moderate and diminishing over the course of the 13-week study.