So, we might ask them to do a 5% or 10% weight reduction prior to having surgery, and that is a patient scenario where you could consider these GLP-1RA medications, which would get such a patient to where we thought it would be safer for them to have an operation. Lowering BMI before surgery is one kind of prehabilitation, a collection of practices meant to optimize patient health before surgery
Eren-Yazicioglu CY, YigitA, Dogruoz RE, Yapici-Eser H
In your stomach, that mesh expands and slows gastric emptying
Colhoun, MD, the AXA Chair in Medical Informatics and Life Course Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom, and lead author of this study, in a press release