A 2024 Scandinavian study of nearly 150,000 people found no meaningful increase in thyroid cancer risk among users of GLP-1 drugs (the class Mounjaro belongs to)
European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 21 (18), 42194227
"We have to be able to get to patients in an affordable way." In the United States, 4 in 10 adults have obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Although most of these studies were on patients with cancer or recovering from viral infections, one of the studies showed a similar impact on otherwise healthy people
That way, they can rest at home in case gastrointestinal issues like nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, or constipation occuror if they have any other side effects such as fatigue
Eruptive melanocytic nevi have been described in the literature in combination with certain bullous dermatoses and compromised immune status (in AIDS, in chemotherapy, and after transplantation).10 In all these cases, determining the potential risk of a new melanoma or transformation to melanoma is both difficult and open to debate