Randomized Trialvery high evidence

Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Obesity without Diabetes.

The New England journal of medicine·December 14, 2023·PMID 37952131

Why it matters

This is the first large RCT to demonstrate that a GLP-1 receptor agonist reduces major adverse cardiovascular events in patients without diabetes, expanding the evidence for cardiovascular risk reduction beyond glucose-lowering effects.

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