We know that a 5%-10% reduction in weight improves asthma, but patients with obesity still struggle with effectively managing their symptoms with current available treatments and experience more respiratory illnesses and complications, said Katherine Cahill, MD, Medical Director of Clinical Asthma Research and principal investigator of the study
Adjust Dose Titration : The FDA-approved titration schedule for semaglutide involves gradual dose escalation to minimize side effects
Wegovy follows a more gradual escalation pattern, starting at 0.25 mg and increasing monthly through 0.5 mg, 1.0 mg, 1.7 mg, to a maintenance dose of 2.4 mg weekly
For continuation versus noncontinuation, the weighted prevalence ratios were 1.29 (95 percent confidence interval, 0.82 to 2.06), 1.08 (95 percent confidence interval, 0.84 to 1.40), and 1.21 (95 percent confidence interval, 0.83 to 1.82) for small for gestational age, large for gestational age, and MCM, respectively