If Your BMI Was Too High to Begin With If your BMI is too high (40 or so and over), you should not consider GLP-1 medications to be the only solution to your excess weight concern
This information helps healthcare providers identify patterns and optimize management strategies
After propensity-score matching, the two cohorts (241 in each cohort, mean age 51.8 years, 39.0% women, 32.6% black, 44.4% white, 5.8% Hispanic) were balanced (see Supplementary Table S3 in the Supplementary Appendix)
If additional glycaemic control is required after at least four weeks, the dose may be increased to 1 mg weekly
Contact your healthcare provider if bruising becomes severe, spreads beyond the injection site, persists longer than two weeks, or is accompanied by bleeding, severe pain, or signs of infection (increasing redness, warmth, pus, or fever)