For patients at high cardiovascular risk with obesity, semaglutide is associated with reduced burden of total hospital admissions.

For patients with hypertension, initiating treatment with an ARB is associated with the best long-term class persistence.

Accelerated linear growth and weight gain from birth to 4 years of age are associated with earlier pubertal onset, particularly in girls.

The FDA has approved Wegovy (semaglutide) tablets, the first oral GLP-1 receptor agonist for the treatment of obesity.

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Youth-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D) can be characterized into reproducible clusters that demonstrate differential response to treatments and risk of complications, but cluster membership does not ...

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GLP-1RA therapy significantly improved cognitive function in type 2 diabetes, with greater benefit observed from earlier initiation and longer-term administration. Earlier initiation and longer-term ...

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