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However, you may also experience serious side effects, and you will likely have to keep taking the drug forever because youre not addressing any of the underlying causes behind your weight gain or weight loss resistance
[164] [165] In July 2023, the Icelandic Medicines Agency reported two cases of suicidal thoughts and one case of self-injury of users of the injection, prompting a safety assessment of Ozempic, [166] Wegovy, Saxenda, and similar drugs
As a proxy for heavy smoking (binary variable), we used diagnosis codes related to lung diseases highly associated with tobacco exposure along with diagnosis codes related to nicotine or tobacco, previous use of medications for the treatment of tobacco dependence, and initiation of drugs for obstructive airway disease after the age of 40