In a seminal March 2021 New England Journal of Medicine study, adults receiving a weekly 2.4 mg injection of semaglutide for about 15 months lost 15% of their body weight35 pounds, on averagecompared to just 2.4% body weight loss in the placebo group
The program established a favorable safety profile but the Phase IIb endpoint did not differentiate sufficiently from placebo to support continued development for obesity
Key Comparison: A 120 lb woman who drinks 2 standard drinks reaches approximately 0.08% BAC the US legal driving limit
With 476,857 individuals across 18 different countries (propensity score matched 1:1 with pregnant controls), this is the largest study to date in this historically underserved population
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other investigations have shown that LFC reduction associated with metabolic disorder improvement and a relative decrease of 30% combined with an improvement in ALT may be predictive of a more active histological response