The challenge for the next few years is making sure patients are able to access them. In their latest analysis, Tsai and his colleagues found that among the commercially insured, less than 1% of people with obesity were being treated with either surgery or GLP-1 drugs, underscoring that despite the shifts underway, obesity remains a profoundly underaddressed public health issue
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It also has a direct effect on the heart and endothelial cells, preventing the progression of atherosclerosis through mechanisms such as increasing nitric oxide and decreasing endothelin-1, reactive oxygen species, and inflammatory cytokines
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Lean meats, fish (particularly oily fish like salmon and mackerel), eggs, Greek yoghurt, and plant-based proteins such as tofu and tempeh all trigger incretin release
