You will likely notice a return of stronger appetite suppression and renewed progress within the first couple of doses on fresh medication
It maintains a stable safety profile even in older adults or those with high cardiovascular risk, providing doctors and patients with confidence in its long-term use
High costs of this drug (and low costs for generic statins) will likely limit use to those at the highest risk of major adverse cardiac events
In contrast, "GLP-1 from medication lasts days to weeks," Ahn explained
The conversation covers how our understanding of obesity as a chronic, relapsing disease has changed over the past 30 years, what the new clinical versus preclinical obesity framework means for how we diagnose and treat it, how GLP-1 drugs work and why they've succeeded where earlier medications failed, what the STEP and SELECT trials revealed about the disease-modifying potential of semaglutide, and how patients and clinicians should be thinking about who these drugs are really for
The injection location is commonly in the upper arm, thigh, or abdomen
