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Available treatments for NAFLD mainly focus on changing lifestyle habits and encouraging weight loss
Vitamin B12, Mayo Clinic, Vitamin B12, Fact Sheet for Consumers, National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements, Pernicious anemia, Cleveland Clinic, Ganipisetti VM, Naha S
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4, or DPP-4, is the enzyme that hydrolyzes incretin hormones such as glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)
Take-home message: - Semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy/Rybelsus) and similar medications for diabetes and weight loss have been linked to an increased risk of a very rare form of blindness, meaning that the chance of developing this form of blindness would still be very rare but not quite as much - The handful of studies done on this link come to different conclusions, with disagreements on how much the risk increases and some studies showing no increase in risk - The problem is that all of these studies rely on incomplete databases of patients, and it is possible that any increase in the risk of developing this form of blindness is actually due to other variables that were not measured and compiled in these databases
Hulse et al., 2019)
