Rare but serious events such as pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas) or medullary thyroid cancer remain under surveillance because of animal toxicity signals
1.3 Overview of GLP-1's physiological roles GLP-1 demonstrates various physiological impacts across several systems in the body, as shown in Table 1
The study found increased risk in both patients with type 2 diabetes and patients using semaglutide for overweight or obesity, but the authors noted that the study was observational and could not prove that semaglutide directly caused NAION
Several GLP-1 medications, including Wegovy, list many side effects, including gastrointestinal side effects, directly on their labels
This is one of the most common questions I hear in my practice
The SUSTAIN-6 trial showed semaglutide specifically reduced non-fatal stroke risk by 39% 17