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One common diet question among people taking these drugs, which include Ozempic or Mounjaro for type 2 diabetes and Wegovy or Zepbound for obesity, is: Can I drink on a GLP-1

At cohort entry, we excluded patients who were less than 18 years of age, had less than one year of medical history in the database, had no diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, had contraindications such as end stage renal disease or multiple endocrine neoplasia, or had concurrent prescriptions for both a GLP-1 receptor agonist and the comparator drug

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In people with overweight/obesity and non-diabetic CKD who were included in the SMART study, 2.4 mg semaglutide once weekly versus placebo reduced UACR by 52% at 24 weeks of treatment (87)

In the early 2020s, as GLP-1s became more popular, leading to shortages, doctors and patients began experimenting with stretching standard doses of Wegovy and Ozempic, which came in multidose injectable pens