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Following an eight-week low-calorie diet, study participants were assigned to either exercise alone, a 3.0-mg daily dose of liraglutide, a combination of both exercise and liraglutide, or placebo for a year. Interestingly, even though people who only exercised and people who only took liraglutide lost a similar amount of weight, those on the medication had a greater reduction in BMD at clinically relevant sites .
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