Last year, the TGA issued a separate safety warning for rare but serious side effects linked with several GLP-1 RAs, including a correlation with increased risk of suicidal thoughts
While health experts have found GLP-1s to be generally very effective for weight loss, there are very few studies on the effects of GLP-1s in postmenopausal women specifically
A wider study, published in June, found that retatrutide helped obese people lose about a quarter of their starting weight over an 11-month period
If your situation changes (e.g., if you get pregnant or develop a serious side effect), you might be told to discontinue retatrutide
Other agents like dulaglutide (Trulicity) and liraglutide at lower doses (Victoza) are approved only for diabetes treatment
Kloting N, Fasshauer M, Dietrich A, Kovacs P, Schon MR, Kern M, Stumvoll M, Bluher M