Overall, the efficacy of semaglutide in weight reduction was demonstrated in patients both with concomitant T2Dspecifically in STEP 2 [39], which included only patients with T2D, as well as in STEP 6, 7, and 10, which included both patients with and without T2D [41,42,43]and without diabetes (STEP 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9) [13, 38, 40, 44,45,46]
Additionally, tirzepatide was found to have a more pronounced effect compared with the GLP-1 agonist semaglutide in people with T2DM
For some time now I've been trying to educate physicians that nobody should be prescribed a weight loss medication like this without a co-requsite referral to a nutritionist
However, humans and mice display large differences
It shows up in everyday care: A general practitioner prescribes Semaglutide with limited time for counseling