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New research from Sweden has found that GLP-1 agonist drugs used to treat diabetes and obesity are unlikely to increase thyroid cancer risk, as some previous studies had suggested.

Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) is a cleavage product of the pre-proglucagon gene which is expressed in the -cells of the pancreas, the L-cells of the intestine, and neurons located in the caudal brainstem and hypothalamus

Several multi-targeting agonists at GIPR, GLP-1R or GCGR, developed to maximize metabolic benefits with reduced side-effects, are in clinical trials to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity

Risk of bias: all four RCTs were rated low risk by RoB2 (with some concerns for open-label outcome ascertainment in three trials, a domain-specific issue that does not alter the overall RoB2 category from low)