Pancreatitis, pancreatic, and thyroid cancer with GLP-1-based therapies
GLP-1 drugs may help with appetite and weight reduction, but they may also create clinically meaningful nutritional side effects, especially in patients with poor baseline diet quality, prolonged use, gastrointestinal side effects, or rapid weight loss
Medicines that act on gut hormone receptors can commonly cause digestive side effects, especially when treatment starts or when the dose is increased
Your body does not just eat less
Still, seniors were also much likelier than younger adults to stop using the drugs, in part because of the cost, KFF Health News reported
I think that dermatologists should be proactive and explain that skin laxity can occur with weight loss especially when losing larger amounts of weight