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Taking a weekly diabetes shot called exenatide doesn’t stop the first heart failure hospital stay, but it does cut down on how often people end up back in the hospital for heart problems by about 18%.
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Effect of Once-Weekly Exenatide in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes With and Without Heart Failure and Heart Failure-Related Outcomes: Insights From the EXSCEL Trial.
Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2019 Nov 12The study tested once-weekly exenatide in people with type 2 diabetes and found it lowered the total number of heart failure hospitalizations, including repeat ones, by 18%, just as the claim says.
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