Despite their newfound status as a game-changing weight-loss treatment, diabetes drugs like Ozempic may come with an elevated risk of serious gastrointestinal problems.
" in the fight against obesity and diabetes, and the popularity of these drugs as a weight loss aid is booming: In the U.S., health care providers wrote 9 million prescriptions for drugs like
“Every gastroenterologist will tell you that clearly Ozempic has an impact on gastric emptying,” says Sameer Khan, a gastroenterologist at John Hopkins Hospital. “There’s a large number of GLP-1 receptors in the stomach and it’s already known that Ozempic and similar drugs slows digestion.” “Given the wide use of these drugs, these adverse events, although rare, must be considered by patients thinking about using them for weight loss,” Mohit Sodhi, first author of the paper and a graduate of University of British Columbia’s experimental medicine program, said. The study marked the first large-scale study investigating the issue and the exact mechanism that increases these risks is unclear.
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