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Semaglutides known gastrointestinal side effects can influence bowel movements and potentially affect colon health
Micah Eimer, clinical assistant professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine cardiologist
Despite how common GLP-1 use has become, there has been relatively little dermatology-focused research on their cutaneous side effects, with most of the existing literature limited to individual case reports. For the cross-sectional analysis, Fat and colleagues compared cutaneous adverse events reported in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) for the GLP-1 receptor agonists semaglutide (Ozempic/ Wegovy, Novo Nordisk), liraglutide, exenatide and dulaglutide (Trulicity, Eli Lilly) with cutaneous adverse event reports for the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-IV) inhibitors sitagliptin, saxagliptin, linagliptin and alogliptin
Abbasinejad recognizes that Ozempic has a strong track record for helping individuals lose significant weight, particularly due to its ability to reduce appetite and improve fat metabolism
After discontinuing semaglutide, many people experience weight regain