Your health care provider can help you decide what weight loss strategies are safest and most effective, especially if youre at risk for misuse
The study found that prescriptions for semaglutide were associated with lower overdose rates among patients with type 2 diabetes who also had a diagnosis of opioid use disorder (OUD)
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Researchers looked at how eating better and moving more affected instances of Type 2 diabetes
However, there were no significant differences in the proportion of patients with PDC 80% at day 360 for semaglutide QW (44.7%) compared with dulaglutide (43.3%, p = 0.86) (Table 2)
Common maintenance approaches include staying at the dose where you stabilized (often 1.0 to 1.7 mg), reducing by one dose level from your peak (e.g., from 2.4 mg to 1.7 mg), or finding the minimum dose that prevents weight regain while minimizing side effects