Metabolic bariatric surgery in the era of GLP-1 receptor agonists for obesity management

JAMA Network Open

2024-10-25

(Press-News.org) About The Study: This cross-sectional study of privately insured patients found a more than 2-fold increase in use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) as anti-obesity medications from 2022 to 2023, with a 25.6% decrease in the rate of metabolic bariatric surgery during the same period. Our results provide a national contemporaneous estimate of the decline in metabolic bariatric surgery associated with the era of GLP-1 RAs.

Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Thomas C. Tsai, MD, MPH, email ttsai@bwh.harvard.edu.

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