However, the upfront costs remain high and continue to rise as demand grows
A lot of patients wind up in a maxillofacial consult for the first time in their adult lives after a year on a GLP-1, and theyre not imagining things
Despite not being a primary aim of the study, by collecting participant characteristics we saw clinically significant improvements in physical health (weight and HbA1c), of similar magnitude to that seen in trials of GLP-1 receptor agonists in obesity [35] and T2D and overweight [36, 37]
"The use of weight loss jabs in a context where thinness is already put on a pedestal and where eating disorders and disordered eating is already a concern, is a recipe for disaster," said Dr Garcia Ashdown-Franks, research fellow at York St John University
When the body is dehydrated, the resulting thickened blood can raise the risk of blood clots, according to the American Heart Association