Common side effects of the medicine are nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and injection-site reactions
These options are particularly suitable for patients with dairy allergies or those following plant-based diets
Surgeons need to start routinely measuring fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K in weight-loss patients, because when they lose fat, they lose these vitamins
In the multivariable Cox proportional hazard regression model adjusted for sex, age, marital status, duration of diabetes, hemoglobin A1c, estimated glomerular filtration rate, cardiovascular disease, use of insulin, use of cholesterol lowering medicine, and use of blood pressure lowering medicine, exposure to once-weekly semaglutide also was independently associated with a higher risk of upcoming NAION (HR 219, 95% CI 154 312)