Taken together, combining an SGLT-2 inhibitor with a GLP-1 receptor agonist in people with type 2 diabetes is associated with lower risk of major cardiovascular events, mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and adverse kidney outcomes compared with monotherapy based on a meta-analysis of 18 cohort studies with 1,164,774 participants [36]
Currently, there is only one drug in this class of medicationstirzepatide, which is approved as Mounjaro for treatment of Type 2 diabetes and as Zepbound for the treatment of obesity
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