However, patients may experience minor side effects, such as injection site reactions (redness, swelling, or itching) or gastrointestinal symptoms (nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea)
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Overall, these results may be used for preliminary MNT guidance for this population, and the researchers call for future large-scale studies to confirm these findings and develop more specific nutritional protocols that account for the unique needs of GLP-1RA users
Minimum treatment duration for meaningful, sustainable results should be 12 months in most cases
Moreover, we retrieved other relevant records 56,57,58 : two large ( N = 133,318 and N = 342,608, respectively) cohort studies in people with diabetes across 613 years noted a beneficial association between GLP-1RA prescriptions compared with non-prescription and lower diagnoses of dementia 57,58 , while a small ( N = 154 patients with T2DM) and shorter (~12 months) cross-sectional investigation of GLP-1RAs in addition to metformin, compared with metformin alone, observed better MoCA scores in the former group 56