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Some practitioners prescribe ursodeoxycholic acid prophylactically during aggressive weight loss to reduce gallstone risk

Long-term metformin use (the first-line type 2 diabetes drug) can lower B12 in a dose- and duration-dependent way: in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (Aroda and colleagues, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism , 2016, roughly 1,700 participants), low B12 at 5 years occurred in 4.3 percent of metformin users versus 2.3 percent on placebo, and the gap widened with continued use

All patients in the study received an initial treatment of 500 g methylcobalamin IM every other day for ten doses followed by 500 g oral methylcobalamin three times a day thereafter