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A tiny dose of a diabetes drug helped sick rat hearts beat better—even without losing weight

Original Title

Low Dose GLP-1 Therapy Attenuates Pathological Cardiac and Hepatic Remodelling in HFpEF Independent of Weight Loss

doi:10.1101/2025.09.26.678829
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Methodology score · 16/100

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Scientists gave sick, overweight rats a very small amount of a drug called semaglutide—so small it didn’t make them lose weight—but their hearts got stronger, their livers got cleaner, and their bodies became less inflamed.

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