You must reduce sweet, starchy, salty snacks, high-fat foods, etc
Ganta says she considers her patients specific health profiles before prescribing GLP-1s, especially with older adults who have frailty, dementia, or another geriatric syndrome
Clinicians can also match the 3 mg dose that is approved for obesity by combining the 1.8 mg and 1.2 mg prefilled sizes, but this will increase the cost and require two shots
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The patients who discontinued GLP-1 medication also sustained improvements in glycemic control, with hemoglobin A1c levels remaining below the threshold for diabetes
GLP-1 peptide molecules are too large to pass through the skin and enter the bloodstream