The blockbuster drug Ozempic has become a household name for its ability to spur weight loss. Now an early study hints at an intriguing possibility: The drug might allow people newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes to drop their daily insulin shots.
Semaglutide has already been shown to improve blood sugar control when people with long-established type 1 diabetes add it to insulin, noted Dr. Mary-Elizabeth Patti, director of theThe new findings, she said, "raise the intriguing possibility" that the drug can also help newly diagnosed patients by combating "glucotoxicity" — where chronicallyHowever, all three experts said much more research is needed.
If semaglutide could replace insulin for a prolonged period, that would "greatly improve" patients' quality of life, Dandona said. A once-weekly injection has obvious advantages over taking multiple injections a day. Beyond that, Dandona said, it's very hard to adjust insulin doses to match food intake, which causes inevitable "ups and downs" in people's blood sugar levels. If those swings can be reduced over a long period, that might curb the risk of
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