Doctors frequently misdiagnose, undertreat, or shame fat people, who then accumulate reasons to distrust medical care
Key risks include bupropion's seizure threshold lowering effect, additive gastrointestinal side effects from both medications, cardiovascular effects including increased heart rate and blood pressure, and potential psychiatric symptoms
Once the medication is stopped, appetite returns to pre-medication levels, and with that change, an increase in caloric intake. It can feel impossible to keep up with the lower calorie intake you might have maintained on a GLP-1 once your appetite and the food noise (a.k.a
Resmetirom received FDA approval for the fibrotic stage, but the steatosis stage, where the vast majority of patients sit, has no approved pharmacological intervention
Time from randomization to first composite kidney event, first composite major cardio-vascular event, and first all-cause death event were analyzed using Cox proportional hazards model, with flozins at baseline used for stratification
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