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ReviewThe Journal of endocrinology2018

Are peptide conjugates the golden therapy against obesity?

S J Brandt, M Kleinert, M H Tschöp, T D Müller

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Review in The Journal of endocrinology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. From Supermarkets to Farms: Food Policy and the Obesity Epidemic.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025
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  6. Drug Therapy in Obesity: A Review of Current and Emerging Treatments.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2020
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  9. Metabolic Targets in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology · 2019
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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

4 authors.

S J BrandtInstitute for Diabetes and ObesityHelmholtz Diabetes Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
M KleinertInstitute for Diabetes and ObesityHelmholtz Diabetes Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
M H TschöpInstitute for Diabetes and ObesityHelmholtz Diabetes Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
T D MüllerInstitute for Diabetes and ObesityHelmholtz Diabetes Center, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany timo.mueller@helmholtz-muenchen.de.

Funding

European Research Council 695054
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity is a worldwide pandemic, which can be fatal for the most extremely affected individuals. Lifestyle interventions such as diet and exercise are largely ineffective and current anti-obesity medications offer little in the way of significant or sustained weight loss. Bariatric surgery is effective, but largely restricted to only a small subset of extremely obese patients. While the hormonal factors mediating sustained weight loss and remission of diabetes by bariatric surgery remain elusive, a new class of polypharmacological drugs shows potential to shrink the gap in efficacy between a surgery and pharmacology. In essence, this new class of drugs combines the beneficial effects of several independent hormones into a single entity, thereby combining their metabolic efficacy to improve systems metabolism. Such unimolecular drugs include single molecules with agonism at the receptors for glucagon, glucagon-like peptide 1 and the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide. In preclinical studies, these specially tailored multiagonists outperform both their mono-agonist components and current best in class anti-obesity medications. While clinical trials and vigorous safety analyses are ongoing, these drugs are poised to have a transformative effect in anti-obesity therapy and might hopefully lead the way to a new era in weight-loss pharmacology.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Obesity AgentsBariatric SurgeryDrug DiscoveryEnergy MetabolismExercise TherapyHumansLife StyleObesityPeptidesWeight Reduction ProgramsAnti-Obesity AgentsPeptidesdiabetesmetabolismobesitypeptides

Identifiers

PMID29848610
PMCPMC6026923

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