Baseline patient characteristics, full frequencies of side effects and study structure are not described in detail
Trials included both, and the visceral-fat effect showed up in both
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Express Scripts defines medical necessity in its prior authorization criteria (the BMI thresholds, step therapy requirements, and comorbidity documentation described above)
In a separate study , published in JAMA in August 2025, the same researchers found that, across ages, GLP-1s were associated with lower risk of some obesity-related cancers, such as endometrial, ovarian, and meningioma cancers, but with an increased risk of kidney cancer, and nonsignificant changes for several other cancers