Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide is ”a new start” within type 2 diabetes and could essentially eradicate the disease, professor Sten Madsbad, who is a consultant at the endocrinology department at Hvidovre hospital, tells Danish journal Sundhedspolitisk Tidsskrift.
This comes after detailed results from a phase III study, Surmount-1, which demonstrated weight loss of up to 22.5% of baseline body weight, were presented at the US diabetes conference, ADA 2022.
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