glp-1 cardiovascular outcomes 2025 news medications are not just for weight loss — they are the most important drug class of our lifetime. 🫀 A meta-analysis of 99,599 patients confirmed: ✓ 20% reduction in major Beyond Blood Sugar: A Scoping

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Both medications work by regulating appetite and blood sugar, but they differ in formulation, side effects, and how they fit into daily routines

At the moment, he says, treatments tend to focus on a single substance, like alcohol or nicotine

Some of the side effects that patients are complaining of include sudden vision loss, pancreatitis, gastroparesis, and kidney problems

Historically, each GLP-1 dollar was split roughly like this: Pharma (Lilly/Novo): ~60% PBMs, insurers, wholesalers, pharmacies: up to 40% That 40% is not value-added

The protein winners, according to 150,000 US households A Cornell study recently published in the Journal of Marketing Research (Hristakeva, Liaukonyt, and Feler) tracked 150,000 US households to measure what actually changes when someone starts a GLP-1, and the picture it paints is remarkably consistent