Key points: Both medications cause similar gastrointestinal side effects, most commonly nausea, diarrhoea, and constipation In the head-to-head trial, liraglutide had double the discontinuation rate of semaglutide (27.6% vs 13.5%) Side effects tend to occur early in treatment and improve over time Wegovy has cardiovascular outcome data (SELECT trial) that liraglutide does not Dosing and practical differences Injection frequency One of the most significant practical differences is how often you inject
But when you look at a thousand studies, and then you try it out, and then you understand some metabolic pathways, and you hypothesize, and then you test, and you look at the results, the name for that is science
Before its clinical trials were finished, a study funded by the company found that weekly shots of semaglutide could result in substantial weight loss
The result is better control of blood sugar levels and a reduction in post-meal glucose spikes
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