Their use is rising rapidly, and with good reason: These medications have been shown to reduce blood sugar, improve fatty liver, GERD, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, blood pressure, triglycerides, major adverse cardiovascular events, and even show potential benefits for conditions like alcohol use disorder (Mozaffarian et al., 2025
But heres the part no one talks about enough: These medications dont fix everything
19 The researchers looked at records of over 3.8 million patients who had type 2 diabetes to assess the time to development of NAION after initiation of GLP-1 treatment
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Abstract The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) convened a writing group to develop a consensus statement on the management of type 1 diabetes in adults
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