As the WL achieved with the novel obesity pharmacotherapies approaches that of bariatric surgery, we will need to assess whether long-term complications observed after bariatric surgery such as increased risk of osteoporosis, fractures, macro- and micronutrient deficiencies as well as self-harm behaviours will also be present with pharmacotherapy [112, 113]
A recent phase II clinical trial in Parkinsons disease, which assessed DFP in 372 newly diagnosed, untreated PD patients over 36 weeks, revealed that DFP not only failed to improve disease symptoms but was associated with a worsening of motor and non-motor symptoms compared to placebo (Devos et al., 2022)
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