DURING a mid-stage trial, Eli Lilly's experimental pill orforglipron has led to 14.7% weight loss after 36 weeks, for people who were obese or overweight, setting a marker in the race to develop effective oral obesity drugs, said researchers last week in Reuters.
Results from a different trial, also presented in San Diego at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association, showed that Lilly's injected drug Mounjaro helped people with type 2 diabetes who were also obese or overweight lose an average of 15% of their body weight, or 14.8kg.
Lilly said the safety profile of orforglipron was similar to other incretin-based therapies.
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