User criteria BMI 30 or BMI 27 with co-morbidities
Alexis Pedrick: This is Laura Dawes, a historian of science and author of Childhood Obesity in America: An Epidemic. Laura Dawes: So in the way that genetics is the cool area now, or your microbiome, in the 1890s, endocrinology, that was it, that was the frontier of medicine
Tirzepatide causes thyroid C-cell tumors in rats, and although its unknown whether tirzepatide causes thyroid C-cell tumors in humans, it is contraindicated in patients with a personal or family history of MTC or in patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2 (MEN 2)
Case 2: A 44-Year-Old Woman A 44-year-old woman with CSU since March 2020 reported persistent daily wheals despite long-term H1AH, with fexofenadine 720 mg per day between March and June 2024 (UAS7 1618 at that time)
Light Protection : While semaglutide does not require complete darkness, keeping it in its original box or another container can protect it from light, which can degrade some medications over time
Maintaining consistent hydration from the outset of therapy prevents volume depletion