Pharmaceutical GLP-1 agonistssuch as semaglutidehave become popular, but they are synthetic, require prescriptions, and may carry side effects with long-term use
Also, self-reporting cant always be consistently reliable
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For some carefully selected patients, that opens the door to eventually reducing the drug burden rather than escalating it: a lower biologic frequency, a smaller methotrexate dose, or getting off chronic steroids
Better blood pressure management 41% of patients in the 8 mg groups and 30% in the 12 mg group were able to stop taking at least one antihypertensive medication after 48 weeks on retatrutide