It's prescribed alongside changes to diet and activity, as part of a medically supervised plan not on its own, and not as a shortcut
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Pay attention to side effects, especially nausea, dehydration, and gallbladder symptoms, and report them to your prescriber early rather than waiting
The SURPASS-2 head-to-head trial provides the cleanest comparison, since both groups were studied under identical conditions
You've also said and I think this is something else we've learned over that time that obesity is not one thing
Most patients regain approximately two-thirds of lost weight within one year of stopping GLP-1 therapy, based on the STEP 4 trial withdrawal data