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Plans are more likely to cover GLP-1s when theyre prescribed for type 2 diabetes than when theyre used for weight loss

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Prior to this several other anti-obesity drugs had also proven disappointing due to adverse effects such as cardiovascular problems, increased suicidal risk and enhanced drug dependence and abuse (Mller, Blher, Tschp, DiMarchi)
Thus, for a given secondary outcome, patients were not censored if they had another event that was part of the composite outcome (other than suicide)

Anti-obesity medications and investigational agents: an Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) clinical practice statement (CPS) 2022
