Some diabetes drugs like liraglutide and exenatide might help protect cartilage in arthritic joints by slowing down the breakdown of important joint components.

Some diabetes drugs called GLP-1RAs might help protect knee cartilage from breaking down in early lab studies, and this has been seen with drugs like liraglutide, dulaglutide, and exenatide.

Some diabetes drugs like liraglutide and semaglutide might help protect knee cartilage by calming inflammation in lab and animal studies — could this mean they help with arthritis?

A type of diabetes drug might help protect joint cartilage in arthritis by stopping cells from leaking important building blocks.

A diabetes drug called liraglutide might help protect cartilage by slowing down the breakdown of joint tissue in lab-grown mouse cells.

In stressed cartilage cells from rats, the diabetes drug liraglutide seems to lower the activity of harmful enzymes that break down cartilage, which might help protect joints when the body is under metabolic stress.