Actively Recruiting
Semaglutide for Metabolic Intervention and Adipose Loss to Treat Atrial Fibrillation
Led by University of Chicago · Updated on 2025-11-14
200
Participants Needed
2
Research Sites
163 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The goal of the study is to learn how a weight loss medication called semaglutide, which is used to treat obesity, in addition to standard AF treatment might affect AF, atrial fibrillation severity, and whether it changes the risk of atrial fibrillation recurring after standard AF treatments.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Semaglutide for Metabolic Intervention and Adipose Loss to Treat Atrial Fibrillation
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Age 18 to 75 years
- Body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m2 or higher
- Diagnosed with paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation
- Scheduled for catheter ablation within 1 year or not expected to have ablation within 1 year
- Able to give informed consent
- Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with HbA1c less than or equal to 10%
- Patients on basal insulin only or oral diabetes medications or both
- Patients on stable doses of SGLT2 inhibitors or thiazolidinediones for at least 6 months
- Women of child-bearing potential must use appropriate contraception
- Patients prescribed amiodarone monitored for liver and thyroid function every 6 months
You will not qualify if you...
- Current or recent (within 90 days) use of GLP-1 receptor agonists or DPP4 inhibitors
- Current or recent (within 90 days) use of antiobesity medications
- Weight change greater than 5 kg in the 30 days before screening
- History of bariatric surgery
- Diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus
- Current use of prandial insulin
- Hospitalization for unstable angina or transient ischemic attack within 30 days before screening
- Pulmonary embolism within 90 days before screening
- Myocardial infarction, stroke, or similar events within 90 months before screening
- Uncontrolled thyroid disease with TSH outside 0.4 to 10.0 mIU/L
- Active cancer
- Participation in another investigational study or use of investigational drugs within 90 days
- Inability to follow study procedures
- Acute pancreatitis within 180 days before screening
- History or presence of chronic pancreatitis
- Chronic kidney disease stage 4 with GFR less than 30 ml/min
- Personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2
- Serious allergic reaction to semaglutide or its ingredients
- Chronic inflammatory conditions requiring immunosuppression or glucocorticoids
- Previous participation in this trial
- Pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning pregnancy
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 2 locations
1
The University of Arizona College of Medicine- Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85004
Not Yet Recruiting
2
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
S
Silvana Pannain, MD
CONTACT
A
Andrew Beaser, MD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
TRIPLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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