But Medicare coverage could have a bigger impact on who gets the drugs because the program covers about 66 million people, and is the primary source of insurance for people ages 65 and above
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The irony of this is that in the very same guidelines they recommended holding one dose of GLP-1 RAs prior to surgery despite having no evidence that this would minimize residual gastric contents
Higher GLP-1 levels inversely correlate with binge-like eating in animals 210,211 , and binging behavior is associated with lower GLP-1R in the nucleus of the solitary tract 212
Hendrickx et al., 2018)
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