While its unclear if this happens in humans, the medication is not recommended for people with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) or Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2 (MEN 2)
If youre taking or considering these medications, there's an important takeaway: the overall risk of eye complications is still low, but its not zero
Ravi Sharma, chief pharmacy officer at Burjeel Holdings, says lower-cost generics could be an inflection point, boosting eligibility and access if quality and regulatory standards are met
Among groups that lost more weight, osteoporosis risk rose for those with and without GLP-1s, but the increase in risk was consistently smaller among GLP-1 users
For the nonparametric data, the Kruskal-Wallis H-test was used to analyse the significant difference among more than two groups