Studies that include patients who are considered at-risk (i.e., diabetics, cardiac, elderly, etc.) and are currently taking GLP-1 RAs should also be performed as these patients may have compounding risk during the perioperative period which may make them more susceptible to complications related to GLP-1 use (Santos et al
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To date, all these peptides have followed similar trajectories: promising animal data with no evidence of efficacy in humans, despite extensive advertising and widespread availability of these compounds to athletes, Ellis and colleagues wrote in their AOSSM article