You can read my full breakdown here: Ozempic Diet for Weight Loss | A Dietitian's Perspective
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There is uncertainty about whether patients reporting this would be expected to clinically present and be diagnosed with diabetes, as well as the extent to which the avoidance of such progression commensurately avoids all important clinical sequelae, and this may introduce a risk of overestimation in terms of prevented diabetes. However, as a subclinical outcome, the relevance and importance to patients of maintaining blood sugars below the hyperglycemic range to avoid a formal diabetes diagnosis is likely to mean its inclusion in our analyses is a valid approach to capturing value
One could argue that helping people decrease their body weight could end up saving other medical costs, assuming that the new body weight is within a range thats good for them health-wise
Currently available FDA-approved GLP-1 RAs include several monotherapy agents and one combination multi-agonist, the dual GLP-1/GIP agonist tirzepatide (Zheng et al., 2024)
It seems to act as a potent protector of tissue, and it is an anti-inflammatory agent that controls the oxidative damage that occurs after tissue injury
