Could a diabetes shot shield heart and kidneys? new study investigates.

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥ 18 * Type 2 diabetes mellitus with hemoglobin A1C 6.6-9.9% with or without the use of insulin * Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) between 50 and 90 ml/min/1.73 m2 Exclusion Criteria: * Allergy or intolerance to gadolinium * Implanted cardiac pacemaker, defibrillator, loop recorder, or other implanted metallic device * Any other metallic implanted device that is a contra-indication to MRI scanning * eGFR \< 50 ml/min/1.73 m2 * eGFR \> 90 ml/min/1.73 m2 * Patient has ever been treated with an approved or investigational GLP-1 receptor agonist e.g. BYETTA™ (exenatide), BYDUREON™ (Exenatide extended-release), VICTOZA™ (liraglutide), or taspoglutide * Patient is enrolled in another experimental protocol which involves the use of an investigational drug or device, or an intervention that would interfere with the conduct of the trial. * Disorders of iron metabolism * Collagen vascular diseases * Myocardial infarction * Use of DDP4 inhibitors, and PPAR gamma agonists * Pregnancy or planned pregnancy during the trial period * Hemoglobin A1C of ≥ 10.0% or \<6.6% * Fasting glucose ≥ 260 mg/dl * Clinically significant abnormal baseline laboratories * Morbid obesity or body girth that prohibits the ability to undergo echocardiography or MRI scanning with high-quality image results * Renal transplantation * Severe gastrointestinal, liver, or neurodegenerative disease * Decompensated liver cirrhosis (Child-Pugh score \>7) * New York Heart Association Class III or IV heart failure * Patients have alanine aminotransaminase (ALT) greater than 5 times the upper limit of the reference range. * Prior pancreatitis * Personal or family history of medullary thyroid adenoma or carcinoma (MTC) * Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2 (MEN 2). * History of severe hypoglycemia * Prior bariatric surgery