Your doctor will typically: Check blood tests (potassium, kidney function) before starting and periodically during treatment Monitor your blood pressure regularly Adjust either medications dose based on your response and any side effects Possibly increase monitoring frequency if you have heart failure, kidney disease, or take other medications affecting potassium Take home message Mounjaro and spironolactone can be taken together safely, but this combination requires appropriate monitoring of potassium levels, kidney function, and blood pressure
Clinicians should counsel patients that GI side effects during dose escalation may transiently reduce sexual interest before the longer-term hormonal benefits of weight loss accumulate
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Melissa-Rosina Pasqua, the studys first author, endocrinologist at the MUHC and doctoral student at The Institute, who coordinated the study
He has loved getting to know the patients and making those personable connections with them