Long-Term Safety and Monitoring Long-term surveillance focuses on sustained tolerability, pancreatitis risk, gallbladder disease, kidney function in susceptible individuals, and rare thyroid-related concerns
Rebound effect Ozempic can cause a rebound effect, in which a person gains back all the weight lost (or even more) after stopping treatment
Biomarker qualification: evidentiary framework
GLP-1 strongly suppresses appetite, slows gastric emptying, and stimulates insulin while suppressing glucagon
For context, heres how the most recent GLP-1 weight-loss drugs reached UK patients: Wegovy (semaglutide 2.4 mg): MHRA approval September 2021, NICE TA875 issued March 2023
A likelihood ratio test was used to test whether models differed with the inclusion of income by time interactions