Dehydration Semaglutide can cause significant gastrointestinal symptoms that lead to fluid loss, such as vomiting or diarrhoea
There have been reports of pulmonary aspiration (when food or liquid from the stomach enters the lungs) in people taking GLP-1 medications, including Zepbound while undergoing surgery requiring sedation, even when instructed to fast before the surgery
Maintain dietary control, physical activity, and behavioural strategies during treatment gaps to preserve weight loss outcomes
Visceral fat, GH deficiency, and cardiometabolic risk
These changes lead to sclerosis, trabecular thickening, and reduced mechanical shock absorption, which exacerbates cartilage degradation due to increased mechanical stress on the overlying articular surface (Zhu et al., 2020
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