Bharathi Rajasridhar, board-certified plastic surgeon at The Aesthetic Studio
It means benefits can outweigh risks for approved uses and eligible patients
In addition to advising patients to wait at least 30 min before taking other oral medications after oral semaglutide, increased clinical and laboratory monitoring should be considered when prescribing medications with a narrow therapeutic index or those that require clinical monitoring, such as levothyroxine [24, 75]
The SOUL trial also demonstrated that oral semaglutide reduced the risk of adverse cardiovascular events among patients with T2D, ASCVD, and/or CKD over a mean of 47.5 months of follow-up [15]
Perspectives in GLP-1 research: new targets, new receptors
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