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When starting GLP-1 medications, doctors usually begin with a low dose and increase it slowly over several weeks or months to reduce side effects, especially nausea and stomach upset
Lancet 394:131138 Tuttle KR, Lakshmanan MC, Rayner B, Busch RS, Zimmermann AG, Woodward DB et al (2018) Dulaglutide versus insulin glargine in patients with type 2 diabetes and moderate-to-severe chronic kidney disease (AWARD-7): a multicentre, open-label, randomised trial
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32261-X
However, GLP-1 medications go a step further by not only improving insulin response but also by suppressing appetite and delaying gastric emptying , leading to more significant weight loss
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