The American Diabetes Association's Standards of Care recommends that patients undergoing significant weight loss receive periodic evaluation of nutritional status, including assessment of dietary adequacy and body composition when possible
Peter Vash, M.D., an endocrinologist and obesity medicine specialist based in Los Angeles
In the first sensitivity analysis comparing the risk of incident NAION in persons with T2D treated with SGLT2 inhibitors alone ( n = 40,206, reference), once-weekly semaglutide alone ( n = 71,658), and once-weekly semaglutide and SGLT2 inhibitors combined ( n = 45,401), we observed 6 events in 82,877 person-years, 36 events in 178,868 person-years, and 31 events in 119,106 person-years, respectively, corresponding to adjusted HR of 242 (95% CI 097 606) and 262 (95% CI 102674) for once-weekly semaglutide without and with SGLT2 inhibitors in a multivariable model adjusted for sex, age, marital status, duration of diabetes, hemoglobin A1c, estimated glomerular filtration rate, cardiovascular disease, use of insulin, use of cholesterol-lowering medicine, and use of blood pressure lowering medicine
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