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ArticleHandbook of experimental pharmacology2022

Drugs for Treating Obesity.

Donna H Ryan

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Article in Handbook of experimental pharmacology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Donna H RyanPennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. Donna.Ryan@pbrc.edu.
Pennington Biomedical Research Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Older medications approved for chronic weight management (orlistat, naltrexone/bupropion, liraglutide 3 mg and, in the USA, phentermine/topiramate) have not been widely adopted by health care providers. Those medications produce only modest additional weight loss when used to augment lifestyle intervention. However, semaglutide 2.4 mg weekly has recently emerged and produces much more weight loss - on average 15% weight loss at 1 year. Semaglutide's enhanced efficacy and that its class (GLP-1 receptor analogs) is well-known may result in more clinicians adopting pharmacotherapy. Furthermore, the first dedicated cardiovascular outcome trial powered for superiority testing an anti-obesity medication (SELECT) is underway with semaglutide 2.4 mg. A positive outcome will further promote the concept that weight management should be a primary target for cardiometabolic disease control. In phase 3, tirzepatide and cagrilintide/semaglutide combination are showing promise for even greater weight loss efficacy. Another recently approved medication takes a personalized medicine approach; setmelanotide is approved as a therapy for those with some of the ultra-rare genetic diseases characterized by severe, early onset obesity. This chapter reviews the currently available and anticipated medications for chronic weight management as well as those approved for the genetic and syndromic obesities.

Indexed as

Anti-Obesity AgentsPhentermineHumansIslet Amyloid PolypeptideObesityWeight LossAnti-Obesity AgentscagrilintideIslet Amyloid PolypeptidePhentermineAnti-obesity medicationBimagrumabCagrilintideChronic weight managementLiraglutideNaltrexone/bupropionObesity drugsObesity pharmacotherapyOrlistatPhentermine/topiramateSemaglutideSetmelanotideTirzepatide

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PMID34783910
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