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. 2024 Dec 7;16(12):e75304. doi: 10.7759/cureus.75304

Table 2. Study characteristics of the included studies.

Studies Number of patients assigned to semaglutide Semaglutide intervention Number of patients assigned to comparator Comparator intervention Number of patients assigned to placebo Mean follow-up (months)
Jensen et al. (2023) [5] 21 1.0 mg semaglutide weekly subcutaneous injection (n=20), 14 mg semaglutide daily oral intake (n=1) 29 3.0 mg daily subcutaneous injection liraglutide (n=28), 1.8 daily subcutaneous injection liraglutide (n=1) 0 6
Murvelashvili et al. (2023) [8] 115 1.0 mg semaglutide once weekly 92 3.0 mg daily liraglutide 0 12
O'Neil et al. (2018) [4] 718 Semaglutide: 0.05 mg/day, 0.1 mg/day, 0.2 mg/day, 0.3 mg/day, 0.4 mg/day, 0.3 mg Fast 2 weekly dose escalation (FE)/day, 0.4 mg FE/day 103 3.0 mg daily liraglutide 136 12
Rubino et al. (2022) [10] 126, 86.2% completed 2.4 mg semaglutide once weekly 127, 95.7% completed 3.0 mg daily liraglutide 85 17
Romero-Gómez et al. (2023) [9] 73, 71% completed 1.0 mg semaglutide once weekly 72, 64% completed  10.0 mg once weekly dosage of efinopegdutide 0 6