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The estimated annual cost of obesity in Canadaincluding hospitalizations, medications, long-term care, and premature mortalityis approximately $27 billion per year
And cost is not the only concern
So how do we know that GLP-1 was the mechanism here
The correlation between delayed gastric emptying and GLP-1 RAs raises concerns about the possible negative effects in the periprocedural setting, as evidenced by case reports of aspiration events occurring during procedural anesthesia in patients administered GLP-1 RAs [14,15]
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