It is advised to use a non-oral contraceptive method (instead of oral contraceptive) or, if using oral contraception- add a barrier method of contraception 4 weeks after initiation and 4 weeks after dose escalation
Frequency: Administered once a week
When semaglutide freezes, ice crystal formation can disrupt the peptide structure irreversibly
At baseline, most patients (97%) were treated with one or more glucose-lowering medications, including metformin (76%), insulin (51%), SGLT-2i (27%), sulfonylurea (29%), and DPP-4i (23%) with CV disease and risk factors managed with lipid-lowering medications (89%), platelet-aggregation inhibitors including aspirin (77%), angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers (79%), and beta blockers (64%)
Gas occurs more frequently in patients receiving the 1mg dose than those on the 0.5mg dose