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Evidence suggests it may promote neuroprotection, regulate inflammation, and influence mood and cognition, with potential clinical relevance for neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders
Semaglutide, in particular, also decreases the risk of cardiac events (e.g., heart attack and stroke) in patients with diabetes
GLP-1 receptor agonists and cardiovascular disease: drug-specific or class effects
These features are essential for oxygen transport, since RBCs have to undergo repeated shape changes without fragmentation, to assure their passage and oxygen perfusion through all vascular networks, namely, through capillary blood vessels with smaller lumen diameter than that of RBCs [6, 7]
It allows the clinic to capture the patient early in their weight-loss journey, treat the immediate symptom (laxity), and retain them within the practice ecosystem until they are potentially ready for surgery or further maintenance