doi: 10.2174/1570159X21666221228095256
Ozempic has emerged as a significant player in the management of type 2 diabetes and, more recently, in the realm of weight loss
Laser surgery: A surgical procedure that uses a laser beam (a narrow beam of intense light) as a knife to make bloodless cuts in tissue or to remove a surface lesion such as a tumor
This is a known effect of glucagon receptor activation and is being monitored closely
Science 2024;385:43846.ArticlePubMedPMC 10
Several studies have shown that complete withdrawal of an obesity treatment dose of a GLP-1RA without other structured care leads to weight regain in most people.2 However, it remains unclear whether lifelong treatment of obesity should always consist of GLP-1RAs at full obesity dosing or whether a range of alternative strategies can enable some subset of people with obesity to maintain their weight loss after a limited duration of initial treatment, followed by tapering, discontinuing, or off-ramping these agents." This paragraph from the article, I believe, sums up nicely what this means