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ReviewClinical medicine (London, England)2023

Future therapies for obesity.

Eka Melson, Alexander Dimitri Miras, Dimitris Papamargaritis

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Review in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed
7.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Association between body fat percentage and metabolic and hematologic biomarkers in Korean adults.The Korean journal of physiology & pharmacology : official journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology · 2026
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  9. The Genetic Blueprint of Obesity: From Pathogenesis to Novel Therapies.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
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  16. Old and new anti-obesity drugs.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2025
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  20. What is the pipeline for future medications for obesity?International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Eka MelsonDiabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Alexander Dimitri MirasSchool of Medicine, University of Ulster, Ulster, UK.
Dimitris PapamargaritisKettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Kettering, UK and associate professor in diabetes and endocrinology, Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK dp421@leicester.ac.uk.
Kettering General Hospital · GBUniversity of Leicester · GBUniversity of Ulster · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity is a chronic disease associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Bariatric surgery can lead to sustained long-term weight loss (WL) and improvement in multiple obesity-related complications, but it is not scalable at the population level. Over the past few years, gut hormone-based pharmacotherapies for obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have rapidly evolved, and combinations of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP1) with other gut hormones (glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), glucagon, and amylin) as dual or triple agonists are under investigation to enhance and complement the effects of GLP1 on WL and obesity-related complications. Tirzepatide, a dual agonist of GLP1 and GIP receptors, marks a new era in obesity pharmacotherapy in which a combination of gut hormones could approach the WL achieved with bariatric surgery. In this review, we discuss emerging obesity treatments with a focus on gut hormone combinations and the concept of a multimodal approach for obesity management.

Indexed as

Bariatric SurgeryDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Gastrointestinal HormonesGlucagon-Like Peptide 1HumansObesityWeight LossGastrointestinal HormonesGlucagon-Like Peptide 1gut hormonesobesitypharmacotherapytirzepatide

Identifiers

PMID37524416
PMCPMC10541050
OpenAlexW4385431101

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