What Ozempic Does: Blood Sugar, Weight, Heart
How Ozempic works: a plain explanation, with the facts from the prescribing information.
- Active ingredient
- semaglutide
- Manufacturer
- Novo Nordisk
- How it is taken
- Weekly injection
- FDA-approved for
- Type 2 diabetes, Heart risk, Kidney disease in type 2 diabetes
A quick look at Ozempic
Its half-life is about 1 week: after 7 d half is gone, and after five half-lives (35 d) about 3% is left.
In SUSTAIN 1, over 30 weeks with type 2 diabetes, 4.7 kg was lost against 1.2 kg on placebo.
Prices each month, in US dollars: the list price and self-pay offers, all found on the maker's price page.
Sources: FDA label (DailyMed), healthsystemtracker.org, prnewswire.com 1 2.