According to Cures survey, 77 percent of physicians said that they have been prescribing GLP-1s for three years or fewer
Multiple factors unrelated to the medication may cause respiratory symptoms, including underlying cardiovascular disease, obesity-related conditions like sleep apnea, worsening GERD from delayed gastric emptying, anxiety or panic attacks, concurrent medications affecting breathing, or unrelated respiratory infections
A 2004 study found that folate deficiency increases with age, from 1 in 20 people aged 65-74 to 1 in 10 or more in those 75 and older
Editors Note: This article also appeared in the January/February 2025 issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
Despite literature touting GLP-1s as long-term treatments, prescribers have indicated to Urick that patients often only use the drugs to reach certain weight loss goals and then discontinue treatment once these are accomplished