Researchers with the ongoing, multinational Semaglutide Effects on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Overweight or Obesity (SELECT) trial randomly assigned 17,604 participants aged 45 years or older who were overweight or obese and had cardiovascular disease but not diabetes to receive a weekly injection of 2.4 milligrams of semaglutide or a placebo
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At the maximum tolerated dose, hair loss occurred in 8.3% of people on Zepbound and 6.1% on Wegovy
They reduce caspase-3 mRNA activity and enhance the expression of anti-apoptotic genes, including Bcl-2 and Bcl-xl [45, 46]