Patients with active eating disorders, active substance abuse, or severe psychiatric conditions may require stabilization before beginning GLP-1 therapy
Wegovy causes a delay in gastric emptying, so it has the potential to impact the absorption of medications that are taken by mouth at the same time
Dried blood spot testing involves patients collecting capillary blood through a finger prick and blotting a special filter paper on a test card
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The lipid radical reacts with molecular oxygen to form a lipid peroxyl radical, which can further propagate the chain reaction by abstracting hydrogen atoms from neighboring fatty acids, leading to a cascade of lipid peroxidation [9]
The risk of recurrence with rechallenge is not well characterized, but most clinicians would avoid restarting tirzepatide after a confirmed episode of rhabdomyolysis