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Lilly Wows ADA Crowd With Obesity Data Across Three-Drug Incretin Portfolio

Weight Loss Of Up To 24.2% With ‘Triple G’ Retatrutide

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Lilly may gain its first US approval in obesity with Mounjaro before the end of 2023, but presented data at ADA for it and two other drugs – retatrutide and orforglipron – that also yielded significant weight loss.

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Lilly presented data at ADA on three obesity drugs • Source: Shutterstock

Eli Lilly and Company is a few years behind Novo Nordisk A/S in bringing a GLP-1 agonist to market for obesity, but it presented data at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) annual meeting that could give the company a best-in-class portfolio of medicines, including its GLP-1/GIP/glucagon receptor (GGG) triagonist retatrutide, which generated weight loss of up to 24.2% in overweight and obese patients without diabetes at 48 weeks in a Phase II clinical trial presented on 26 June.

Novo Nordisk already markets the injectable GLP-1 agonist Wegovy (semaglutide) for obesity in the US and plans to submit its...

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