Other GLP-1 medications may cause acute kidney injury due to dehydration
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doi: 10.1111/adb.13117
Essential practices include cleaning the injection site with alcohol swabs and allowing to dry, using new sterile needles for each injection, swabbing vial rubber stoppers before each draw, avoiding touching needle tips to any surface, and disposing of needles properly in sharps containers
In 1987, her paper with Habener and Daniel Drucker showed that GLP-1 stimulates glucose-dependent insulin secretion in the pancreas, suppresses glucagon release, and slows gastric emptying, all of which stabilize blood sugar levels after eating