Authors affiliated with Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, including corresponding author Stuart L
"Based on our study, we recommend that guidelines be updated with the following precautions for GLP-1 RA users undergoing endoscopic procedures: continue therapy, follow a liquid-only diet the day prior, and adhere to standard pre-anaesthesia fasting," said lead author, Dr Brent Hiramoto, senior gastroenterology Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital
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It also seeks other appropriate equitable relief if those remedies are found insufficient to fully address the harm to patients
On average, surgical patients lost 58 pounds (around 24% of their total weight) by the end of year two, whereas GLP-1 patients on average lost 12 pounds (around 4.7% of their total weight)a fivefold difference