Novo Nordisk STEPs Into Heart Failure

More Success For Obesity And Diabetes Blockbuster Semaglutide

 
• By Elizabeth Cairns
  
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The company’s metabolic juggernaut looks like a winner in obesity plus HFpEF, but making comparisons with approved products is tricky – and meeting demand is trickier still.

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It can treat diabetes and obesity and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with those conditions, so many were expecting Novo Nordisk A/S’s semaglutide to produce a further success in heart failure, and so it has proved. In a trial in obese patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), the GLP-1 improved symptoms, physical limitations and exercise function compared with placebo – and also allowed greater weight loss.

The STEP-HFpEF results, presented this morning at the European Society of Cardiology’s annual meeting in Amsterdam, could mean yet more...

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