METHODS
We randomly assigned 3297 patients with type 2 diabetes who were on a standard-
care regimen to receive once-weekly semaglutide (0.5 mg or 1.0 mg) or placebo for
104 weeks. The primary composite outcome was the first occurrence of cardiovas-
cular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke. We hypothesized
that semaglutide would be noninferior to placebo for the primary outcome. The non-
inferiority margin was 1.8 for the upper boundary of the 95% confidence interval
of the hazard ratio.