Assist patients in making transportation arrangements to ensure they can attend regular ophthalmology appointments and follow-up visits for retinopathy management
Figure 1: Landscape of GLP-1 coverage in Medicaid for weight loss indication "Recent change" is relative to KFFs August 2024 report
These results demonstrate superior performance compared to other GLP-1 agonists, insulin, and placebo [23, 24, 25, 26]
These complications are extensive and diverse, encompassing metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes 2 , dyslipidemia 3 , cardiovascular diseases 4 and an increased overall mortality risk 5
Counterfeit GLP-1 drugs have become, as Katherine Eban wrote in a Vanity Fair investigation, a hot commodity among transnational crime groups, homegrown counterfeiters, rogue compounders, shady middlemen, unscrupulous doctors, and medi-spas of dubious legality. By February, Eban reported, illegal pharmacies in the US were filling more than 734,000 GLP-1 prescriptions per month, according to data compiled by Translucent DataLab, which scrutinizes illegal online pharmacies, and IQVIA, a major data and clinical research company
Additionally, GLP-1 receptor agonists act on appetite centers in the hypothalamus, decreasing hunger signals and food intake
