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Having daily or weekly injections of GLP-1 agonists such as Ozempic and Wegovy may become a thing of the past for people with diabetes if a new drug delivery system proves effective in humans.

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However, its future trajectory is far from linear as many uncertainties remain, e.g., acceptance of obesity as a chronic disease, budget impact faced by payers and health systems willingness and ability to pay, the readout of further cardiovascular outcomes trials after the high profile results of 2023s SELECT trial for Wegovy, or new entrants challenging first generation therapies with alternative mechanisms of action (MoA) to address shortcomings such as gastrointestinal tolerability, current drugs being injectables, or the durability and quality of weight loss which distinguishes between fat and lean body mass