At the same time, longevity clinics, sports-recovery communities, biohacker media, and telehealth marketing expanded public awareness of peptides far beyond traditional medical channels
Some individuals, particularly those with severe obesity or conditions such as type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease or heart disease, may benefit from longer-term treatment
The big drug of the moment is semaglutide, marketed in slightly different formulations under a range of brand names, including Ozempic and Wegovy
1-8 Recent European Society of Cardiology guidelines for the management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with diabetes state that GLP-1 RAs (lixisenatide, liraglutide, semaglutide, exenatide extended release [ER], dulaglutide, efpeglenatide) should be considered for glucose-lowering treatment in patients with T2D at risk of or with heart failure (HF