These are not theoretical benefits
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The challenge is to get these results into clinical practice, to get the drug used by the people who will benefit from it, who will live longer without dialysis, without heart attacks, without strokes, if they take this drug. Conducted between June 2019 and May 2021, the trial saw half of all patients receiving a 1 mg dose of semaglutide each week, and half receiving a placebo
And if regulators focus only on whether peptides fit neatly into traditional drug categories, they may miss the bigger public health problem entirely
Retatrutide's phase 2 data (N=338, 48 weeks) show 24.2% loss at the 12 mg dose at 48 weeks [2]