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If any apply, the medication should not be prescribed: Personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2 (MEN 2) Known serious hypersensitivity to the active medication or to a related incretin-receptor agonist Clinical precautions that prompt careful screening These are not absolute contraindications on the FDA label, but they meaningfully change the risk-benefit conversation
Higher predisposition to adverse effects Additionally, people who had previously used gastrointestinal medications -- which may indicate they are more vulnerable to the common adverse gastrointestinal side-effects reported by GLP1-RA users, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea -- were 9% more likely to discontinue semaglutide within the first year
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Authors' contributions FPB, GWR, LRW, and MJB designed the studies
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