Initial evaluation of symptomatic patients should include right upper quadrant ultrasound and laboratory tests including liver function tests (bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, ALT/AST), complete blood count, and consideration of lipase to assess for pancreatitis
This is groundbreaking news, Dr
Therefore, clinical claims should focus on improving cardiometabolic risk factors and metabolic substrates rather than prematurely extrapolating MACE reduction data from general obesity populations
For GLP-1s, we prescribe FDA-approved medications only, we don't compound
He also acknowledges the limitations of a post hoc analysis like this, which benefits from knowledge of the outcomes of the primary analysis, although he adds that each of the six components of this studys end point were prespecified, and most were centrally adjudicated