After stopping treatment: Heart rate increase fully reverses upon discontinuation, as the drug clears over 34 weeks (retatrutide half-life approximately 67 days)
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That study did show a modest increase in the risk for biliary disease associated with GLP-1 RA use, but Lopez agreed that in the future, we will see big changes [in guidelines] as far as the acute pancreatitis risk with this medication. Every time we see patients with a history of pancreatitis, it has been exclusion criteria, and I think that will probably change, he told Medscape Medical News
Due to limited availability of funding for the GLP-1 survey items, we were unable to collect more detailed information about how and why people were accessing these medications