Medications containing semaglutide marketed for type 2 diabetes or weight loss
Novo Nordisk recently petitioned the FDA to ban the production of copycat drugs with semaglutides on the grounds that it is too complex a drug to be compounded, and could be potentially risky.2 Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly (maker of Mounjaro and Zepbound) have also reaped the financial rewards of GLP-1 drugs explosion in popularity, so they have skin in the game
Summary: Cagrilintide and retatrutide are investigational injectable medicines being studied for obesity and type 2 diabetes in men, targeting multiple hormonal pathways to reduce appetite, improve blood glucose control, and increase energy expenditure, but neither is currently licensed in the UK
Ideally, these risk factors should be assessed and minimized in advance, so the surgery or procedure can safely proceed. The odds for aspiration is greatest in the first weeks after a GLP-1 med is prescribed, since the delay in stomach emptying is more pronounced then