Semaglutide mastery course
Unit 6 of 12

Cardiovascular outcomes

Lowering glucose or weight is a surrogate; preventing heart attacks is the real prize. Semaglutide cleared that bar in…

From surrogate markers to hard heart outcomes

Lowering glucose or weight is a surrogate; preventing heart attacks is the real prize. Semaglutide cleared that bar in dedicated outcome trials. SUSTAIN-6 showed reduced major cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetes, and SELECT extended the benefit to obesity without diabetes.

This unit reads those forest-plot results carefully, including the retinopathy caution from SUSTAIN-6, so the cardiovascular story stays honest about both benefit and risk.

Key terms

SELECT: hard outcomes in obesity


SUSTAIN-6 in diabetes


Where the benefit comes from


The retinopathy caution


Weight-dependent or independent?