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What happens to the heart when people stop GLP-1 drugs?
The short answer: nothing good.
New from our team: a study of 330,000+ people in @BMJMedicine
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Ziyad Al-Aly, MD
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Ziyad Al-Aly, MD
@zalaly
Physician-Scientist | TIME100 Health time.com/6966812/ziyad-…
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- For decades, the junk food industry has deliberately engineered foods to be addictive. Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs have helped people break free from this cycle. In response, the industry is now searching for ways to counteract the effects of these medications, aiming to design
- True leadership by Austrian physicians “COVID-19 is not a cold. It is not influenza. It is a systemic, vascular-damaging disease that only spreads via the respiratory route, via aerosols. COVID is neither over, nor is it a harmless infection without consequences.” Read🧵below🧵 Austrian physicans: "We CAN’T take responsibility for the constant, unmitigated infection of the population w/ a vascular-damaging, neurotropic virus like SARS-CoV-2, in which a previous infection provides no long-term protection vs future infection.” t-online.de/gesundheit/kra…
- This is the story of 16-year-old Cara who stopped wearing a mask after being bullied at school, bringing COVID home to her immunocompromised mother, who tragically died as a result. These stories must be told and we must learn from them.
- Here is the latest from our team in @NatureMedicine Should you protect yourself from Covid-19 reinfection Yes! Reinfection is not benign; it is best to avoid it by @BCBowe @Biostayan @zalaly A thread 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4159…
- Today I testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions I called for the establishment of a new multidisciplinary research institute to address Infection Associated Chronic Conditions Solving these requires a long-term coordinated approach
- Thanks to @people magazine for covering my piece on the Covid-19 and brain health COVID-19 poses a serious risk to brain health, even in mild cases, and the effects are now being revealed at the population level Link here:
- My full testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Video here thanks to @luckytran 👇"The burden of disease and disability from Long COVID is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease. The best way to prevent Long COVID is to prevent COVID in the first place. There is no Long COVID without COVID." Brilliant testimony by @zalaly! #HELPLongCovid
00:00 - 1/ 📣 New from my team in @NatureMedicine In a study of 6 million people, we examined risk trajectories of 80 components of Long Covid over 2 years post-infection 📌 Risks remained elevated for many Long Covid conditions even 2 years infection A 🧵
- I am not afraid! But the post below is NOT ok. Someone who has 90 k followers is calling for my execution. I reported it, but it has not been removed yet. It has been there for 13 hours......This is NOT ok.
- This is very important for people to understand. Immunity against SARS-CoV-2 - wanes/declines/disappears with time (months). This applies to immunity from natural infection and vaccine-derived immunity.
- 🧵1/ A Significant surge in the number of people with a disability in the U.S. The @stlouisfed just released an analysis using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), revealing some concerning trends. Here’s what they found: #Disability #DisabilityJustice #LongCovid
- We are experiencing a Covid surge Here are some facts Covid leads to more hospitalizations than flu Covid leads to more deaths than flu Covid is NOT seasonal; flu is Even mild COVID can cause #LongCovid According to CDC, COVID hospitalization rates are double those of the flu
