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It's an educational estimation tool, not a clinical diagnostic
In that environment of uncertainty comes a new study published last Thursday in JAMA Ophthalmology demonstrating that more than twice as many patients with diabetes exposed to GLP-1 agonists developed neovascular age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) compared with those in a matched cohort of similar patients who were unexposed
This finding was not seen in people who used GLP-1 medications for shorter periods and has not been consistently confirmed across other studies
GLP-1 meds, decoded: weekly vs daily options and how they differ for appetite, glucose, and weight
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