{"id":185203,"date":"2024-03-15T20:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T01:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/semaglutide-can-cut-diabetic-kidney-disease-progression"},"modified":"2024-03-15T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T01:02:50","slug":"semaglutide-can-cut-diabetic-kidney-disease-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/semaglutide-can-cut-diabetic-kidney-disease-progression","title":{"rendered":"Semaglutide Can Cut Diabetic Kidney Disease Progression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/semaglutide-can-cut-diabetic-kidney-disease-progression2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The blockbuster weight loss drug semaglutide can cut the progression of diabetic kidney disease, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.novonordisk.com\/news-and-media\/news-and-ir-materials\/news-details.html?id=167028\" class=\"\">according to its manufacturer Novo Nordisk<\/a>, adding to growing evidence that the medication has beneficial effects beyond treating Type 2 Diabetes and obesity.<\/p>\n<p>Semaglutide \u2014 which is marketed under the name Ozempic for diabetes treatment and Wegovy for weight loss \u2014 managed to also reduce death from kidney disease and cardiovascular issues by 24 percent versus a placebo.<\/p>\n<p>The results came from a Novo Nordisk clinical trial that had 3,533 participants with both diabetes and chronic kidney disease. High blood sugar from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/diabetes\/managing\/diabetes-kidney-disease.html\" class=\"\">diabetes can damage kidneys<\/a> and ultimately lead to chronic kidney disease, in which the organ has trouble filtering toxins from the blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blockbuster weight loss drug semaglutide can cut the progression of diabetic kidney disease, according to its manufacturer Novo Nordisk, adding to growing evidence that the medication has beneficial effects beyond treating Type 2 Diabetes and obesity. Semaglutide \u2014 which is marketed under the name Ozempic for diabetes treatment and Wegovy for weight loss \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}