The extensive SUSTAIN and STEP clinical trial programmes, which evaluated semaglutide's safety and efficacy, have not shown a signal for increased incidence of gastrointestinal bleeding compared to placebo or active comparators, as documented in the European Medicines Agency's European Public Assessment Report (EPAR)
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The side effects from GLP1s are almost exclusively gastrointestinal in nature, she told Healthline