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After clinical trials [2, 11,12,13, 15, 16, 18,19,20,21,22,23], the U.S
Future research should develop longitudinal datasets to enable analysis of weight loss and side effects in the context of dosage escalations, while exploring genetic factors, which could then inform how genetics might be leveraged in clinical decision-making at treatment initiation and beyond

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