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Liraglutide, marketed as Victoza for diabetes and Saxenda for weight management, was one of the first successful GLP-1 drugs
However, semaglutide (the most potent weight-reducing GLP-1RA) accounted for a minority of the GLP-1RA cohort, and not all patients on GLP-1RA reached the highest licenced dose that exerts the greatest effect on body weight
On the basis of the PIONEER clinical trials 2, 3, and 4, the long-term cost-effectiveness of novel oral semaglutide versus empagliflozin, sitagliptin, and injectable liraglutide showed that oral semaglutide 14 mg was considered more cost-effective compared with empagliflozin 25 mg and sitagliptin 100 mg and superior as compared with liraglutide 1.8 mg for the treatment of T2DM in the Netherlands [99]
A valid before-and-after comparison requires: identical lighting (same source, same angle, same intensity), identical camera settings, identical distance from subject, no change in makeup or skincare layering, and a defined timeframe with a single variable changed