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Trial abstract

SELECT — structured trial abstract

SELECT — Semaglutide in cardiovascular and obesity: event-driven cardiovascular outcome trial

Document identifier
CEI-TR-0010
Series
Trial abstract
Version
2.3
Published
07 Jan 2023
Last reviewed
07 Mar 2024
Next review
07 Mar 2026
Identifier
10.71829/cei.trial.10
Certainty
High
Cycle
2023 Q1
Phase
Phase 3
Status
Reported

§1Structured abstract

§1.1Objective

To evaluate Semaglutide in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular risk reduction and obesity and overweight in adults, against the comparator specified in §2, with the primary endpoint stated below.

§1.2Design

Design
Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, event-driven cardiovascular outcome trial
Masking
Double-blind with independent endpoint adjudication
Phase
Phase 3
Randomised participants
17,604
Duration of the primary analysis period
Mean 39.8 months
Sponsor class
Manufacturer-sponsored
Registry identifier
not reproduced — see the note in §1.5

§1.3Primary endpoint

Time to first occurrence of a three-point composite of cardiovascular death, non-fatal myocardial infarction or non-fatal stroke

§1.4Principal result

Hazard ratio 0.80 (95 % CI 0.72 to 0.90); 6.5 % versus 8.0 %.[1,2]

Event-driven, independently adjudicated, and enrolled participants without diabetes. The Institute treats SELECT as the trial that separates the cardiovascular effect of this class from glycaemic control.

§1.5Provenance of this abstract

Table 1. Field-by-field provenance. The Institute records which fields are extracted from a source and which are its own reconstruction, so that a reader can tell the two apart without leaving the page.

FieldProvenanceNote
Design, phase, duration, primary endpointExtractedReproduced from the published report or the registry record.
Randomised participantsExtractedReproduced as published.
Principal resultExtractedReproduced as published, with the confidence interval where the Institute holds it.
Centres, countries and baseline characteristicsReconstructedDerived by the Institute from the design class and the randomised total. Presented in §2 as an illustrative operational profile and marked as such. These figures are not published characteristics of this trial.
Certainty assessmentInstitute judgementThe Institute’s own domain-by-domain assessment, with reasoning recorded against each domain in §4.
Registry identifierNot heldThe Institute does not reproduce a registry identifier it has not verified and never constructs one. Documents are referenced by the Institute’s own identifier.

References cited on this page

References are numbered in order of first citation in this document. Each superscript in the text links to its entry below.

  1. Lincoff AM, Brown-Frandsen K, Colhoun HM, Deanfield J, Emerson SS, Esbjerg S, Hardt-Lindberg S, Hovingh GK, Kahn SE, Kushner RF, Lingvay I, Oral TK, Michelsen MM, Plutzky J, Tornøe CW, Ryan DH. Semaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in obesity without diabetes. New England Journal of Medicine 2023;389(24):2221–2232. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2307563 · PMID 37952131
  2. Ryan DH, Lingvay I, Deanfield J, Kahn SE, Barrientos-Pérez M, Colhoun HM, Cercato C, Conway L, Kushner RF, Lincoff AM. Long-term weight loss effects of semaglutide in obesity without diabetes in the SELECT trial. Nature Medicine 2024;30(7):2049–2057. doi:10.1038/s41591-024-02996-7 · PMID 38740993

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