Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 27(1), 259267
The drug, manufactured by Novo Nordisk, is approved for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes but has been increasingly used for weight loss
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This, if true, would be very different from earlier drugs in this class, where roughly 25 to 40% of the weight lost tends to come from lean mass
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