Weight Loss
Obesity Management Update 2023
As a nutrition support pharmacist, you can help obese patients manage obesity as New Year’s resolutions kick in. Continue to emphasize lifestyle changes, and review medication lists for possible causes of weight gain (antipsychotics, steroids, etc). Updated Canadian guidelines recommend considering medications for patients with …
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Weight Loss
Rybelsus may be prescribed for weight loss
As a nutritional support pharmacist, you will hear about using Rybelsus (semaglutide) for weight loss , it is now available in Egypt . Rybelsus will be the first ORAL GLP-1 agonist for type 2 diabetes, it's a tablet version of injectable Ozempic . Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is inactivated in the…
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Vitamin-E
Guide to manage NONalcoholic fatty liver disease
As a clinical pharmacist, you will see more focus on managing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) , partly due to new guidelines. It’s being called a “sleeper epidemic” About 1 in 4 patients have this steatosis, but most don’t have symptoms. NAFLD often goes hand in hand with cardiovascular (CV) risk factors, such as insulin resistance or diabetes , obesity an…
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