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Efficacy and safety of once‐weekly semaglutide versus once‐daily sitagliptin as add‐on to metformin in patients with type 2 diabetes in SUSTAIN China: A 30‐week, double‐blind, phase 3a, randomized trial

L. Ji, Xiaolin Dong, Yi-Ming Li, Yu-Feng Li, Soo Lim, Ming Liu, Zu Ning, S. Rasmussen et al.

Diabetes, obesity and metabolism, 2020

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Abstract

To evaluate the efficacy and safety of once‐weekly subcutaneous semaglutide, a glucagon‐like peptide‐1 (GLP‐1) analogue, versus once‐daily sitagliptin as add‐on to metformin in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in a multiregional clinical trial.

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