[2] Ozempic and Wegovy, also known as GLP-1 agonist medications, have become household names
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-glucuronidase (GLU) is a lysosomal glycosidase whose main function is to participate in the degradation of glucuronidoglycans containing glucuronic acid and is associated with various pathophysiological conditions in the body
The conversation covers how our understanding of obesity as a chronic, relapsing disease has changed over the past 30 years, what the new clinical versus preclinical obesity framework means for how we diagnose and treat it, how GLP-1 drugs work and why they've succeeded where earlier medications failed, what the STEP and SELECT trials revealed about the disease-modifying potential of semaglutide, and how patients and clinicians should be thinking about who these drugs are really for