Clinical trial data provides useful benchmarks, but your individual response matters most
And underneath it all, cost continues to be the elephant in the room
Given the growing number of people taking this drug who have no cardiovascular disease or who are not classified as obese, we suggest that cardiac structure and function be carefully evaluated in previous and ongoing clinical studies. Dycks study comes on the heels of a commentary published in the November issue of The Lancet by an international team of researchers from the U of A, McMaster, and Louisiana State University who examined emerging research showing that up to 40 percent of the weight lost by people using weight-loss drugs is actually muscle
If you decide you want to try to get pregnant, work with your prescriber to taper or stop the GLP, and give the medication at least two months to get out of your body before you try to get pregnant
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