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ReviewDiabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders2020

A Review on Semaglutide: An Oral Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist in Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Sanjay Kalra, Rakesh Sahay

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In one paragraph

Review in Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease: The Past, Present, and Future.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2022
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  7. Late-stage generation ofNature communications · 2026
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  9. Semaglutide - properties, action and chromatographic analysis.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2025
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  17. Semaglutide in Cardiometabolic Diseases: SELECTing the Target Population.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2024
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  18. Italian Association of Hospital Cardiologists position paper-obesity in adults: a clinical primer.European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sanjay KalraDepartment of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, India. brideknl@gmail.com.
Rakesh SahayDepartment of Endocrinology, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India.
Bharti Hospital · INOsmania Medical College · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) are a well-established class of glucose-lowering drugs. GLP-1 RAs can be classified according to their structure, duration of action and mode of administration. This review describes the basic and clinical pharmacology of orally administered semaglutide. It highlights the PIONEER clinical trial programme results, and reviews the efficacy, safety and tolerability.

Indexed as

GLP-1 RAGLP-1 receptor agonistsGlucagon-like peptideOrally administered semaglutidePioneer trial

Identifiers

PMID32725484
PMCPMC7434819
OpenAlexW3044587011

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