ReviewAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2024
Exploring the clinical effectiveness of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in managing cardiovascular complications: an updated comprehensive review and future directives.
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- GLP-1 receptor agonists beyond glycemic control: integrated cardio-renal-metabolic protection across the cardiovascular kidney metabolic continuum.Cardiovascular diabetology. Endocrinology reports · 2026Review
- Semaglutide: a key medication for managing cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome.Future cardiology · 2025Review
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Abstract
The possible cardiovascular advantages of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), a class of drugs predominantly used to treat type 2 diabetes (T2D), have garnered increasing attention in recent years. Clinical trials have looked into the possibility that GLP-1RAs have extra cardioprotective benefits in addition to their ability to manage T2D, demonstrating significant major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) reduction and a favorable safety profile. GLP-1 RAs improve cardiovascular outcomes, especially in those with existing cardiovascular disease. MACE has been steadily declining with this class of drugs, which results in a noticeable rise in cardiovascular outcome trials (CVOTs). GLP-1 RAs have a variety of impacts on the cardiovascular system beyond their function in glycemic control. They offer direct cardioprotection, vasodilation, promotion of salt excretion, reduction of weight, improved lipid profile, and anti-inflammatory qualities through a variety of mechanisms. Thus, this review focuses on GLP-1RAs, its mechanism of action, its clinical effectiveness in CVOTs, the mechanism behind its cardiovascular benefits, its potential role in heart failure, cardiovascular outcomes, its underutilization, and future directives. In conclusion, GLP-1 RAs shows potential in controlling T2D while also lowering cardiovascular risk, but warrants further study into long-term results and real-world data to optimize treatment regimens, ultimately increasing patient outcomes and lowering the burden of cardiovascular disease in T2D populations.
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