If restarting sooner is important for your health, the safest approach is to make a plan with your healthcare team as appropriate
If you have chronic health issues such as diabetes, heart disease, ect, let your doctor know
for health monitoring, such as for pain management or medication compliance
Despite challenges like high treatment costs, the market is anticipated to expand further, fueled by increasing clinical evidence, new regulatory approvals for additional indications, and the development of more affordable alternatives
Cardiovascular outcome trials have demonstrated reductions in major adverse cardiovascular events in high-risk patients, prompting investigation into their effects on various cardiovascular risk factors, including lipid profiles
This underscores the need for both RWE and RCTs in parallel and reinforces the need to need to run clinical trials that reflect real-world populations, a topic explored in more detail in our blog Obesity trials on trial Some health improvement seen with GLP-1 therapy may be a direct effect of weight loss, rather than unique drug effect as seen by improvements in liver and kidney health 4
