Current and emerging medications for the management of obesity in adults

Joshua M. Inglis; Ganessan Kichenadasse; Arduino A. Mangoni

doi:10.5694/mja2.52028

Current and emerging medications for the management of obesity in adults

Joshua M. Inglis, Ganessan Kichenadasse, Arduino A. Mangoni

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To the Editor: We congratulate Walmsley and Sumithran1 for their excellent review on medications for the management of obesity in adults. We also wish to highlight a safety signal for thyroid cancer with glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, which is a relevant issue to prescribers given the widespread use of these agents for obesity.

Preclinical studies in rodents demonstrated that all GLP-1 receptor agonists caused thyroid C cell tumours...

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	187
Number of pages	1
Journal	Medical Journal of Australia
Volume	219
Issue number	4
Early online date	4 Jul 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52028
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023

Keywords

adverse events
Cancer
Diabetes mellitus, type 2
Endocrine gland neoplasms
Obesity
Pharmaceuticals

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