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Scientists Just Found Something Rather Grim That Happens When You Stop Taking GLP-1s

https://health.yahoo.com/conditions/endocrine/diabetes/articles/scientists-just-found-something-rather-150000117.html

https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/5/1/e002150

Study author Ziyad Al-Aly, a WashU Medicine epidemiologist, described the effect as a “metabolic whiplash.”

The good news: they found that the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients who consistently took GLP-1s over three years fell by 18 percent, backing up a wealth of research demonstrating its health benefits beyond simply losing weight.

And now for the bad: quitting GLP-s for as short a period as six months, the study found, spiked their risk of a major cardiovascular event by as much as 8 percent. And those who stopped taking them for one or two years saw their risk shoot up by 22 percent, wiping out the protection the drug offered.