Kristie Reed, PharmD, oversees emergency, general medical, surgical, psychiatric care, and oncology medication as the pharmacy director of a community hospital. Dr. Reed specializes in IV medications.

In patients with diabetes, semaglutide use was associated with an increased risk for nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic ...

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Patients who received semaglutide before MBS from 2017 to 2024 were matched 1:1 with patients who did not receive semaglutide before MBS using nearest-neighbor propensity score matching.

The use of semaglutide in patients with diabetes was associated with a significantly increased risk for nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) compared with those taking drugs for ...

But the retrospective study of 350 patients revealed that taking semaglutide before bariatric surgery did not improve overall weight loss or safety outcomes compared to surgery alone.

Patients receiving preoperative semaglutide versus controls had similar median hemoglobin A1c levels before MBS and one year after MBS. Furthermore, both cohorts had a similar number of patients with ...