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. 2020 Oct;38(4):390-402.
doi: 10.2337/cd19-0100.

Switching Between Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists: Rationale and Practical Guidance

Jaime P Almandoz  1 , Ildiko Lingvay  1 , Javier Morales  2 , Carlos Campos  3
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Switching Between Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists: Rationale and Practical Guidance

Jaime P Almandoz et al. Clin Diabetes. 2020 Oct.
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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Kaplan-Meier analysis of persistence among patients switching from a previous GLP-1 receptor agonist to dulaglutide once weekly, exenatide twice daily or once weekly, or liraglutide once daily. Patients were switched from dulaglutide (5.0%), exenatide twice daily (28.1%), exenatide once weekly (17.4%), or liraglutide (49.5%). Data are from a retrospective analysis of a German prescription database using data from 1 February 2014 to 31 March 2017. Reprinted with permission from Otto et al. (57). BID, twice daily; QW, once weekly.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Practical algorithm for switching between once-daily and once-weekly GLP-1 receptor agonist therapies. *First dose of 7 or 14 mg to be administered 1–7 days after last injection (based on limited advice in the prescribing information, which specifies only when switching from semaglutide 0.5 mg subcutaneous). †Assessment of equivalent dose is entirely based on authors’ opinion, which in turn is based on head-to-head clinical trials when available and/or clinical experience. Other reasons for switching could include patient preference, concern about drug interactions, and cost/insurance issues. Exenatide once weekly is not available at a lower dose but could be tried if this is an insurance-preferred GLP-1 receptor agonist. BID, twice daily; GLP-1RA, GLP-1 receptor agonist; QD, once daily; QW, once weekly.
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