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Pinned straw:

Added 6 months ago

Interesting addition to all the chatter on weight loss drugs. Will be fun to see if this alters pundits views on the relative merits of weight loss drugs.

Like all preliminary data, may well not survive further substantial analysis but it was a large cohort. At the risk of stating the obvious of you look hard enough for side effects, the law of large numbers states that you will encounter an increase in adverse event in one domain that is higher than expected. But people are usually unwilling to increase their risk of going blind

Drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy linked to eye condition causing vision loss


https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/article-abstract/2820255

Nnyck777
Added 5 months ago

Interesting side note I have have a few local GPS sending me patients to check for NAION due to Ozempic use. GP caution in prescribing increasing. I have also had a particularly bad exacerbation for diabetic maculopathy last week which also may be linked to GLP1 use. These drugs are serious. I am astounded that anyone would take them casually for weight loss.

CPAP machines safe for now!

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Chagsy
Added 5 months ago

Interesting @Nnyck777

I know its anecdote, but I had a patient with the most terrible run of pancreatitis as a side effect of Ozempic. And the next patient singing its praises about how it had helped her shed 30kg and she no longer needed weight loss surgery and it was a miracle!

Its going to be fascinating to see how this plays out.

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Arizona
Added 5 months ago

@Nnyck777 From my laymans perspective, its really great to get your take on the situation from the coal face.

The idea that, at scale, a drug is the route to weight loss jars with me.

Then there is the side effects, known and unknown....



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