Healthy Returns: Why people quit weight loss and diabetes drugs within one year
A version of this artikel first appeared in King88bet Login CNBC's Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive future editions. Most people quit a highly populer class of weight loss and diabetes drugs called GLP-1s within a year of starting them, several studies have shown. But new research has more detils on who is more likely to stay on the pricey drugs, which biaya roughly $1,000 per month before insurance and other rebates. Many insurance plans cover GLP-1s for Tipe 2 diabetes, but not for obesity. Around 65% of patients without King88bet Slot Tipe 2 diabetes discontinued GLP-1s in less than one year, according to a studi published Friday in JAMA Network Open, a medical journal. Those with Tipe 2 diabetes were less likely to quit the drugs within a year, at about 46%. Those rates were around 84% versus. 64%, respectively, for stopping GLP-1s within two years. The s...