Take home message GLP-1 medications can lead to significant weight loss, but results vary depending on the medication, your starting weight, whether you have type 2 diabetes, and the lifestyle changes you make alongside treatment
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Contraindications include personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2, uncontrolled severe diabetes, severe renal impairment, or concurrent use of other weight-loss medications
That expansion brought legitimate clinical access to many patients, and it also brought a proliferation of gray-market and outright illegal operators