While also not prescribing GLP-1s personally, Brandon Peters, MD, FAASM, a sleep physician at Virginia Mason Medical Center, has patients taking GLP-1s for obesity or diabetes and seeing improvements in their OSA
Ozempic can be used with metformin, sulfonylurea and a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor (SGLT2i) and basal insulin with metformin
Patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) also develop -cell dysfunction leading to varying degrees of insulin insufficiency or occur insulin resistance, which may be the result of complex interactions between the environment and different molecular pathways involved in cell biology, including a long-term high-glucose, high-fat diet, oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, and epigenetic disruption and imbalances (Maresch et al
and systemic and glucose-lowering effects
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