Once-Weekly Glucose-Lowering Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes

Editor’s note: Exenatide once weekly (QW), which was recently approved for patients with type 2 diabetes, has great potential as a new diabetes therapy in the primary care setting. This article, and the commentary that precedes it (p. 92), offer an overview of this new therapeutic tool and important insights about its clinical utility. In the interest of transparency, however, we want to point out that the authors of both articles are affiliated with Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which manufactures exenatide QW and markets it under the trade name Bydureon.