Following a specially planned diet and exercise will always be important when you have diabetes, even when you are taking medicines
Hydration: the overlooked essential Water deserves its own section because dehydration on semaglutide is surprisingly common and causes a cascade of problems that people blame on the medication itself
The October 2024 results: An average weight loss of 13.7% with Wegovy, compared with 3.2% on placebo 1 WOMAC pain score (0 to 100, higher is worse) dropped by 41.7 points with Wegovy versus 27.5 on placebo, a 14.1-point difference between the two groups 1 WOMAC physical function score dropped by 41.5 points versus 26.7 on placebo, a 14.9-point difference covering tasks like climbing stairs and getting up from a chair 1 The 14.1-point pain improvement is comfortably above the threshold most researchers use as the minimum patients actually feel in their day-to-day pain 1 STEP 9 is the first large trial to test a GLP-1 medication specifically in adults with osteoarthritis
There is some encouraging news on the horizon
In many pharmaceutical categories, a higher strength of medication equates to a higher cost
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