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A novel, long-acting glucagon-like peptide receptor-agonist: dulaglutide

Overview of attention for article published in Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy, August 2015
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Title
A novel, long-acting glucagon-like peptide receptor-agonist: dulaglutide
Published in
Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy, August 2015
DOI 10.2147/dmso.s34418
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Tara Gurung, Deepson S Shyangdan, Joseph Paul O’Hare, Norman Waugh

Abstract

Dulaglutide is a new, long-acting glucagon-like peptide analogue in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. It is available in two doses, 0.75 and 1.5 mg, given by injection once weekly. This systematic review reports the effectiveness and safety of dulaglutide in type 2 diabetes in dual and triple therapy. MEDLINE, MEDLINE In-Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations, EMBASE, and conference abstracts were searched from 2005 to August 2014, and updated in January 2015. Company websites and references of included studies were checked for potentially relevant studies. European Medicines Agency and US Food and Drug Administration websites were searched. Four trials were included. All were manufacturer-funded randomized controlled trials from the Assessment of Weekly Administration of Dulaglutide in Diabetes (AWARD) program. AWARD-1 compared dulaglutide 1.5 mg against exenatide 10 µg twice daily and placebo, AWARD-2 compared dulaglutide 0.75 and 1.5 mg against insulin glargine, AWARD-5 compared dulaglutide 0.75 and 1.5 mg against sitagliptin 100 mg and placebo, and AWARD-6 compared dulaglutide 1.5 mg against liraglutide 1.8 mg. The duration of follow-up in the trials ranged from 26 to 104 weeks. The primary outcome of all the included trials was change in HbA1c. At 26 weeks, greater HbA1c reductions were seen with dulaglutide than with twice daily exenatide (dulaglutide 1.5/0.75 mg: -1.5%/-1.3%; exe: 0.99%) and sitagliptin (1.5/0.75 mg -1.22%/-1.01%; sitagliptin: -0.6%). HbA1c change was greater with dulaglutide 1.5 mg (-1.08%) than with glargine (-0.63%), but not with dulaglutide 0.75 mg (-0.76%). Dulaglutide 1.5 mg was found to be noninferior to liraglutide 1.8 mg. More patients treated with dulaglutide achieved HbA1c targets of <7% and ≤6.5%. Reduction in weight was greater with dulaglutide than with sitagliptin and exenatide. Hypoglycemia was infrequent. The main adverse events were nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. Dulaglutide is effective in the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes but we need long follow-up data for safety concerns.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 1%
Netherlands 1 1%
Unknown 70 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 15%
Researcher 10 14%
Other 6 8%
Student > Postgraduate 5 7%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 16 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 43%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 8 11%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 16 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 December 2018.
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#7,000,263
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Outputs from Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy
#279
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Outputs of similar age
#74,120
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Outputs of similar age from Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy
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