SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s Innovent Biologics said on Monday its GLP-1 injection led to more weight loss and better control of blood sugar in patients with diabetes than injectable semaglutide, the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk’s diabetes and weight-loss medicines.

The late-stage head-to-head trial compared different doses of the two drugs in patients with diabetes and obesity to assess glycemic control and weight loss. One group received a 6 mg dose of the mazdutide drug that Innovent develops and the other a 1 mg dose of injectable semaglutide.

Innovent, which secured exclusive development and commercialisation rights in China for mazdutide from Eli Lilly under undisclosed financial terms in 2019, is also approved in China to sell that drug as a treatment for type 2 diabetes.

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