ArticleCirculation2019
Effect of Once-Weekly Exenatide in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus With and Without Heart Failure and Heart Failure-Related Outcomes: Insights From the EXSCEL Trial.
Article in Circulation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01144338 (Exenatide Study of Cardiovascular Event Lowering Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Exenatide Study of Cardiovascular Event Lowering Trial (EXSCEL). A Randomized, Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate Cardiovascular Outcomes After Treatment With Exenatide Once Weekly in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 92 citations in OpenAlex.
- Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines and recommendations.European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes · 2026Pooled it
- GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for the Prevention of New-Onset Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Placebo-Controlled Randomized Clinical Trials.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of sex on sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 antagonists and glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists in heart failure.ESC heart failure · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of Heart Failure History at Baseline on Cardiovascular Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Type 2 Diabetes: a Meta-analysis.Cardiovascular drugs and therapy · 2024Pooled it
- Epidemiology of heart failure in diabetes: a disease in disguise.Diabetologia · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist (GLP-1RA) on Cardiac Structure and Function: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized-Controlled Trials.Cardiovascular drugs and therapy · 2024Pooled it
- A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Safety and Efficacy of Using Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Pooled it
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- Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors, glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists and sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors for people with cardiovascular disease: a network meta-analysis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Proteomic pathways across the ejection fraction spectrum in patients with heart failure and diabetes mellitus: an EXSCEL trial substudy.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Risk of adverse events with liraglutide in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: A post hoc analysis of the FIGHT trial.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2023 · on this mapTrial
- Impact of glp-1 receptor agonists on hospitalization for heart failure and all-cause death in patients with diabetes with and without heart failure: a real-world study.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2026Article
- Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Across the Heart Failure Spectrum: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cureus · 2026Review
- Decoupling weight loss from organoprotective benefits in GLP-1RA, dual agonists, and SGLT2I therapy: A narrative review.Acta diabetologica · 2026Review
- Effect of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026Review
- GLP1 receptor agonists in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) - beyond weight loss: a condensed scientific review.Drugs in context · 2026Review
- Obesity in Cardiorenal syndrome: Management Opportunities and Challenges.Current hypertension reports · 2025Review
- Current and Emerging Roles of GLP1 Receptor Agonists Across the Spectrum of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction in Heart Failure.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Pharmacological treatment for patients with obesity and heart failure: Focus on glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists. European Journal of Heart Failure expert consensus document.European journal of heart failure · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundOnce-weekly exenatide (EQW) had a neutral effect on hospitalization for heart failure (HHF) in the EXSCEL study (Exenatide Study of Cardiovascular Event Lowering), with no differential treatment effect on major adverse cardiac events by baseline heart failure (HF) status. EQW's effects on secondary end points based on HHF status have not been reported. The objective was to explore the effects of EQW on secondary end points in patients with and without baseline HF and test the effects of EQW on recurrent HHF events.
methodsThe prespecified analysis of the randomized controlled EXSCEL trial, which enrolled patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with and without additional cardiovascular disease, analyzed EQW effects on all-cause death, each major adverse cardiac event component, first HHF, and repeat HHF, by baseline HF status (regardless of ejection fraction). A subgroup analysis of the population stratified by preserved or reduced baseline ejection fraction was performed.
resultsOf 14 752 EXSCEL participants, 2389 (16.2%) had HF at baseline. Compared with those without HF at baseline, patients with preexisting HF were older, and more likely to be male and white, with a higher burden of other cardiovascular diseases. Overall, those assigned to EQW had a lower incidence of all-cause death (hazard ratio [HR], 0.86 [95% CI, 0.77-0.97]) and the composite outcome of all-cause death or HHF (HR, 0.89 [95% CI, 0.80-0.99]). When stratified by presence or absence of baseline HF, there was no observed reduction in all-cause death with EQW with baseline HF (HR, 1.05 [95% CI, 0.85-1.29]), while the risk of mortality was reduced with EQW in the no-HF group (HR, 0.79 [95% CI, 0.68-0.92]) with an interaction
conclusionsIn EXSCEL, the use of EQW in patients with or without HF was well tolerated, but benefits of EQW on reduction in all-cause death and first hospitalization for HF were attenuated in patients with baseline HF. CLINICAL
trial registrationhttps://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT01144338.
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