Sprecher et al., 2007 | Risérus et al., 2008 | Metabolex, 2008 | |
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Subjects | |||
Number | 12 | 6 | 173 |
Description | Healthy male lean subjects | Healthy male obese subjects | Overweight or obese subjects with high cholesterol and triglycerides |
Agonist | GW501516 | GW501516 | MBX-8025 |
Duration | 2 weeks | 2 weeks | 8 weeks |
Weight | ND | ↓a | |
Blood pressure | ↔ | ||
HDL | ↑ | ↔ | ↑ |
LDL | ↓ | ↓ | |
Apo B | ↓ | ||
Fasting glucose | ↓ | ↓ | |
Fasting insulin | ↓ | ↓ | |
HOMA | ↓ | ||
Triglycerides | ↓ | ↓ | ↓ |
Total cholesterol | ↓ | ||
Free fatty acids | ↓ | ||
Liver fat | ↓ | ||
FGF21 | ↑a |
↑, increase; ↓, decrease; ↔, no change.
↵a Reported in Christodoulides et al. (2009).