Common causes include diuretic medications (both loop and thiazide diuretics increase urinary potassium excretion), gastrointestinal losses from prolonged vomiting, diarrhea, or laxative abuse, inflammatory bowel disease, beta2-receptor agonists, proton-pump inhibitors, corticosteroids, xanthines (theophylline, caffeine), and overdosage of insulin or verapamil [1][3][9]
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Patients with high cortisol often find that weight loss stalls completely, even on GLP-1 therapy, unless the cortisol dysregulation is addressed simultaneously
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The OASIS 4 trial showed 13.6% mean weight loss (16.6% with full adherence) at 64 weeks for oral semaglutide 25 mg