GLP-1s lower risk of 10 obesity-associated cancers, study shows

New analysis finds that the GLP-1 class of medication — glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists — is simpler in mitigating the danger of 10 obesity-associated cancers than its sort 2 diabetes drug alternate options.

The retrospective examine, published Friday in JAMA Network Open, measured outcomes for a cohort of greater than 1.6 million sufferers with sort 2 diabetes from 2005 to 2018 who had been prescribed GLP-1s, insulin, or metformin. The researchers used information from the primary time level, the prescription of any of the medication, till as much as 15 years after.

Rong Xu, a professor of biomedical informatics at Case Western Reserve College and examine creator, stated the identified efficacy of GLP-1 medication in treating weight reduction and managing sort 2 diabetes prompted researchers to do the examine.