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Trial reportJournal of clinical pharmacology2018

Pharmacokinetics, Safety, and Tolerability of Oral Semaglutide in Subjects With Hepatic Impairment.

Tine A Baekdal, Mette Thomsen, Viera Kupčová, Cilie W Hansen, Thomas W Anderson

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Trial report in Journal of clinical pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It reports registered trial NCT02016911. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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40citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02016911 phase1completed

Investigation of Pharmacokinetics, Safety and Tolerability of Oral Semaglutide (NNC0113-0217) in Subjects With Mild, Moderate and Severe Degrees of Hepatic Impairment Compared to Subjects With Normal Hepatic Function

Ran2013Enrolled56Registered outcomes4Posted comparisons0ConditionsDiabetes, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, HealthyArmssemaglutide
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Clinical Pharmacokinetics of Semaglutide: A Systematic Review.Drug design, development and therapy · 2024
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  7. Semaglutide - properties, action and chromatographic analysis.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2025
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  8. The expanding role of semaglutide: beyond glycemic control.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2025
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  11. A Bioequivalence Study of Two Formulations of Oral Semaglutide in Healthy Participants.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Tine A BaekdalNovo Nordisk A/S, Søborg, Denmark.
Mette ThomsenNovo Nordisk A/S, Søborg, Denmark.
Viera Kupčová3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Dérer's Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Cilie W HansenNovo Nordisk A/S, Søborg, Denmark.
Thomas W AndersonNovo Nordisk A/S, Søborg, Denmark.
Novo Nordisk (Denmark) · DKComenius University Bratislava · SK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Semaglutide is a human glucagon-like peptide-1 analog that has been co-formulated with the absorption enhancer, sodium N-(8-[2-hydroxybenzoyl] amino) caprylate, for oral administration. This trial (NCT02016911) investigated whether hepatic impairment affects the pharmacokinetics, safety, and tolerability of oral semaglutide. Subjects were classified into groups: normal hepatic function (n = 24), and mild (n = 12), moderate (n = 12), or severe (n = 8) hepatic impairment according to Child-Pugh criteria, and received once-daily oral semaglutide (5 mg for 5 days followed by 10 mg for 5 days). Semaglutide plasma concentrations were measured during dosing and for up to 21 days post-last dose. Area under the semaglutide plasma concentration-time curve from 0-24 hours after the 10th dose (primary end point) and maximum semaglutide concentration after the 10th dose appeared similar across hepatic function groups. Similarly, there was no apparent effect of hepatic impairment on time to maximum semaglutide concentration (median range 1.0-1.5 hours) or half-life (geometric mean range 142-156 hours). No safety concerns were identified in subjects with hepatic impairment receiving semaglutide. Reported adverse events were in line with those observed for other glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists. There was no apparent effect of hepatic impairment on the pharmacokinetics, safety, and tolerability of oral semaglutide. The results of this trial suggest that dose adjustment of oral semaglutide is not warranted in subjects with hepatic impairment.

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Administration, OralAdultArea Under CurveBlood GlucoseFemaleGlucagon-Like PeptidesHalf-LifeHumansHypoglycemic AgentsLiver DiseasesMaleMiddle AgedSemaglutideBlood GlucoseGlucagon-Like PeptidesHypoglycemic AgentsSemaglutideGLP-1 receptor agonistshepatic impairmentpharmacokineticssemaglutide

Identifiers

PMID29693715
PMCPMC6175428
OpenAlexW2800291410

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