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FollowingTheDao 5 days ago

I would be more concerned about the thyroid cancer when taking these drugs...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2024&q=glp+1+thyro...

cthalupa 5 days ago | parent [-]

The two meta-analysis are interesting, I think.

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/thy.2023.0530

> Overall there is no conclusive evidence of elevated thyroid cancer risk.

https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/do...

> Our meta-analysis showed that GLP-1RA treatment could be associated with a moderate increase in relative risk for thyroid cancer in clinical trials, with a small increase in absolute risk. Studies of longer duration are required to assess the clinical implications of this finding.

It's potentially a possibility, but the absolute risk seems to still be quite low.