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Viral Shah, an endocrinologist at Indiana University School of Medicine, told CNN in 2025 that people 65 and older are already at risk for sarcopenia, and losing even 10 to 15% of lean mass while on a GLP-1 is significant because they have less muscle to begin with
Moles that get crusty, painful, become itchy or bleed A mole that becomes crusty or bleeds should be reviewed as the visual changes can be markers of underlying changes within the mole
The heart-rate cost is mostly the glucagon arm: GLP-1 on its own nudges heart rate up a little and then flattens, while glucagon carries the part that keeps climbing with the dose
The patients who took GLP-1s may have had access to better health care and a lower risk of cancer to begin with, he said