At 12 months, only 19% of patients continued with the medication.
The team analyzed data from the Cleveland Clinics electronic health records in its Ohio and Florida locations.
BMI is a dated, flawed measure.
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It does not take into account factors such asbody composition, ethnicity, sex, race, and age.
Research has found that people on the medication lost 510% of their body weight within 56 weeks.
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Why Do Patients Stop Taking Their Medication?
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Some of the older anti-obesity medications tend to be mild stimulants.
They found that insurance coverage can impact how long someone stays on an anti-obesity medication.
In other words, the more effective anti-obesity drugs become, the more insurance providers might realize their value.
Even at just 36 weeks, patients experienced an average weight reduction of 20.9%.
We plan to examine this question in our future work.
If they dont feel that this is the right medicine for them, we will work a different strategy.
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