The first targeted therapy for MASLD, a selective thyroid hormone receptor- agonist called resmetirom, was approved by the U.S
"In addiction medicine, a lot of treatments target just one thing, for example, a nicotine patch helps with smoking, but not alcohol, but there is no medication that works across addictive substances, let alone all of them," said senior author Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, a WashU Medicine clinical epidemiologist and Chief of the Research and Development Service at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System
All of the participants in the trial had an A1C between 8.0% and 10.5%
Similarly, Eric Polley, PhD, a UChicago data science and public health expert, recently led a study published in Nature Cardiovascular Research that used statistical modeling to emulate a clinical trial comparing the effects of four different classes of diabetes medication in patients with moderate cardiovascular risk
To be properly absorbed, a dose of carnitine must be taken with a serving of about 80 g of carbohydrates
The population in SELECT was different that STEP-1 and SUMOUNT 1, with 90.1% of patients on lipid-lowering therapy and a much lower baseline LDL-C of 78 mg/dL compared to 111 mg/dL and 110 mg/dL in STEP-1 and SURMOUNT 1 respectively [33, 35, 48]