Deploying a treatment can help alleviate the personal shame and responsibility that some people may feel about their weight, he said
In STEP 1, in a population of obese or overweight people without diabetes, those who received semaglutide 2.4 mg plus a lifestyle intervention over 68 weeks lost an average of 14.9% in bodyweight as compared with just a 2.4% reduction in the placebo plus lifestyle intervention group
Alcohol may also cause gastrointestinal problems like nausea, vomiting, and an upset stomach, which may be worsened when combined with semaglutide
The current BMI, the realistic medical target, and how much of the goal is about magnitude versus sustainability
The harder question is whether patients will come to accept the idea of eating their medicine in a spoonful of algae
fatty acids), and activation of cell death or senescence programs