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BURLINGTON, Mass., Nov. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fractyl Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GUTS) (the “Company”), a metabolic therapeutics company focused on pioneering new approaches that treat root causes of obesity and Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), presented the poster, “Duodenal Mucosal Resurfacing (DMR) Durably Maintains Weight Loss in Metabolic Disease,” on Sunday, November 3, 2024, during The Obesity Society’s Annual Meeting at ObesityWeek 2024 in San Antonio, Texas.
The poster showcased compelling results of a pooled data analysis from five clinical studies, n=118, where participants were followed for 48 weeks post-Revita procedure. At baseline, prior to treatment, participants had longstanding, inadequately controlled T2D. Most had obesity (62%) or were overweight (34%), with a mean BMI at baseline of 31.1%. The relatively low baseline BMI, coupled with inadequately controlled T2D, as well as a population of advanced age, all represent demographic factors that indicate a hard-to-treat patient population for obesity. The results still show that 90% of patients lost weight at one-month post-procedure; 84% of these patients maintained their body weight loss through one year of follow-up, even in the absence of any prescribed diet or lifestyle intervention. The early body weight loss after a single Revita procedure, with a durable weight loss plateau reached after week four, represents a differentiated therapeutic time-action profile compared to current obesity drugs, which require prolonged dose titration and ongoing persistence to achieve weight loss. The procedure was well tolerated without any device or serious adverse events observed.
Revita is an outpatient endoscopic procedure that involves resurfacing the mucosal lining of the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine just after the stomach, which is responsible for breaking down food into absorbable nutrients. Revita targets the duodenal lining, which can become thickened by high-fat and high-sugar diets, making it hard for the body to maintain a healthy metabolism and blood glucose levels. By resurfacing and reversing the pathology of the duodenal lining, if approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Revita has the potential to become the first disease-modifying therapy that targets a root cause of obesity and T2D.
“We are moving towards a new frontier in the treatment of obesity. While current GLP-1 drugs have helped patients lose weight, the critical unmet need is now how to durably keep this weight off,” said Harith Rajagopalan, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fractyl. “These data show that a single Revita procedure results in durable weight maintenance and holds the potential to advance the treatment of obesity by providing an off-ramp from GLP-1 therapies. We believe these data were valuable in the FDA Breakthrough Device designation granted to Revita for weight maintenance for people with obesity who discontinue GLP-1 drugs. This designation is only given to those technologies that address high unmet needs and may improve the lives of people with life-threatening or debilitating conditions. This validates the critical unmet need that Revita may be able to fill. We look forward to reporting data from our pivotal trial in weight maintenance in the fourth quarter of this year.”
About Fractyl Health
Fractyl Health is a metabolic therapeutics company focused on pioneering new approaches to the treatment of metabolic diseases, including obesity and T2D. Despite advances in treatment over the last 50 years, obesity and T2D continue to be rapidly growing drivers of morbidity and mortality in the 21st century. Fractyl Health’s goal is to transform metabolic disease treatment from chronic symptomatic management to durable disease-modifying therapies that target the organ-level root causes of disease. Fractyl Health is based in Burlington, MA. For more information, visit www.fractyl.com or https://twitter.com/FractylHealth.
About Revita
Fractyl Health’s lead product candidate, Revita, is based on the company’s insights surrounding the potential role of the gut in obesity and T2D. Revita is designed to remodel the duodenal lining via hydrothermal ablation (i.e., duodenal mucosal resurfacing) to edit abnormal intestinal nutrient sensing and signaling mechanisms that are a potential root cause of metabolic disease. Revita has received a CE mark in Europe and, in January 2022, received reimbursement authorization through NUB in Germany for the treatment of T2D. In the United States, Revita is for investigational use only under US law. A pivotal study of Revita in patients with T2D who are inadequately controlled on any glucose lowering agent, REVITALIZE-1, is currently enrolling in the United States and Europe. A pivotal study of Revita in patients with obesity after discontinuation of GLP-1 based drugs, called REMAIN-1, is underway with anticipated data readouts from the open-label study in weight maintenance in the fourth quarter of 2024 and an anticipated mid-point randomized analysis of the REMAIN-1 pivotal study in Q2 2025.
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