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Tina Moore highlights a new opinion piece in Diabetes Care that challenges the standard approach to GLP-1 medications like semaglutide

When tirzepatide shortages hit, patients face the choice between missing doses entirely or transitioning to an available alternative

If we treat 14 mg oral as roughly comparable to 0.5 mg weekly injectable Ozempic for orientation, then an older patient on oral tablets loses about 3.7 kg over the 30-ish weeks (bear in mind, evoke trials are 2 years long), and if around 45 percent of that loss is lean mass (or thereabouts) that is about 1.7 kg of muscle gone

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Skin-tightening treatments are a consideration, and timing relative to active weight loss matters

In the vast majority of cases this is a telogen effluvium driven by rapid weight loss, not lasting damage