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Weight Reduction with GLP-1 Agonists and Paths for Discontinuation While Maintaining Weight Loss.

Allison B Reiss, Shelly Gulkarov, Raymond Lau, Stanislaw P Klek, Ankita Srivastava, Heather A Renna, Joshua De Leon

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Review in Biomolecules, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Allison B ReissDepartment of Medicine, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY 11501, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4478-2441
Shelly GulkarovDepartment of Foundations of Medicine, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY 11501, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5429-0734
Raymond LauDepartment of Medicine, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY 11501, USA.
Stanislaw P KlekDepartment of Medicine, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY 11501, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8589-9673
Ankita SrivastavaDepartment of Foundations of Medicine, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY 11501, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7872-2183
Heather A RennaDepartment of Foundations of Medicine, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY 11501, USA.
Joshua De LeonDepartment of Medicine, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY 11501, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Worldwide, nearly 40% of adults are overweight and 13% are obese. Health consequences of excess weight include cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and increased mortality. Treating obesity is challenging and calorie restriction often leads to rebound weight gain. Treatments such as bariatric surgery create hesitancy among patients due to their invasiveness. GLP-1 medications have revolutionized weight loss and can reduce body weight in obese patients by between 15% and 25% on average after about 1 year. Their mode of action is to mimic the endogenous GLP-1, an intestinal hormone that regulates glucose metabolism and satiety. However, GLP-1 drugs carry known risks and, since their use for weight loss is recent, may carry unforeseen risks as well. They carry a boxed warning for people with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. Gastrointestinal adverse events (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea) are fairly common while pancreatitis and intestinal obstruction are rarer. There may be a loss of lean body mass as well as premature facial aging. A significant disadvantage of using these medications is the high rate of weight regain when they are discontinued. Achieving success with pharmacologic treatment and then weaning to avoid future negative effects would be ideal.

Indexed as

Glucagon-Like Peptide 1ObesityWeight LossDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2HumansGlucagon-Like Peptide 1adverse effectsappetite regulationbody weightdrug therapyenergy balanceGLP-1 receptor agoniststreating obesity

Identifiers

PMID40149944
PMCPMC11940170

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