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NCT05035082: REALYSE
A Research Study Comparing RYBELSUS® to Other Blood Sugar Lowering Tablets in People Living in America With Type 2 Diabetes (REALYSE)
Phase 4 trial testing semaglutide in Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 in 1,020 participants. Completed in 18 June 2025.
18 June 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Novo Nordisk A/S |
|---|---|
| Phase | Phase 4 |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 1,020 |
| Start date | 1 September 2021 |
| Primary completion | 18 June 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 18 June 2025 |
| Sites | 25 locations across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- semaglutide (semaglutide) — full drug profile →
- oral glucose-lowering medications (commercially available) — full drug profile →
Conditions studied
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 — all drugs for Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 →
Sponsor
Novo Nordisk A/S — full company profile →
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
This study is comparing the medicine RYBELSUS® to other medicines in people with type 2 diabetes who need extra treatment. All medicines used in this study are tablets which lower blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. The purpose of the study is to see how well RYBELSUS® is at lowering blood sugar compared to other tablets when used in addition to metformin. Participants doctor will give participants either RYBELSUS® or any other blood sugar lowering tablets - which treatment participants get is decided by chance. The doctor treating participants diabetes will give participants a prescription for the medicine and tell how to take it. The study will last for about 1 year. Participants will have 2 planned visits with their doctor which are part of the usual routine diabetes management: the first visit is when participants are included in the study, the second visit is a 1-year follow-up visit. In addition, the study personnel will contact participants up to 3 times during this period and to follow-up on information from participant doctors visits. Participant will be asked to respond 3 times to 4 questionnaires via their personal smartphone or tablet or paper if participant do not have access to one during the study. All clinic visits are part of the usual routine diabetes management and are covered by participants health insurance plan. The study team will collect information from these visits recorded in the medical chart. Women cannot take part if pregnant, breast-feeding or plan to become pregnant during the study period.
Publications & conference data
No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.
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Trials by the same sponsor.
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05035082 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Novo Nordisk A/S
- Last refreshed: 25 November 2025
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