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Patients from the PIONEER trials had higher satisfaction with oral semaglutide [38, 41, 42] than with placebo [38, 39, 42] and sitagliptin [41], especially in regard to hyperglycaemia

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Compounded semaglutide offers the same active ingredient at a lower cost

Overall, the use of the GLP-1 receptor agonist-SGLT-2 inhibitor combination was associated with a 30% lower risk of MACE (7.0 v 10.3 per 1000 person years

There have been several head-to-head clinical trials comparing the efficacy of different GLP-1 receptor agonists broadly demonstrating the superiority of semaglutide to comparators [37]