Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the resources provided by the Institute for Precision Health and participating patients from the UCLA ATLAS Community Health Initiative ( The UCLA ATLAS Community Health Initiative in collaboration with UCLA ATLAS Precision Health Biobank is a program of the Institute for Precision Health, which directs and supports the biobanking and genotyping of biospecimen samples from participating patients from UCLA in collaboration with the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute and UCLA Health
The area around the belly button, maintaining at least a 5cm (2-inch) clearance from the navel, provides ample subcutaneous tissue for comfortable injection
More than 2,600 patients underwent Semaglutide for up to 68 weeks, and 1,500 secured placeboes within these four studies
The group using GLP-1s included adults receiving liraglutide (Victoza, Novo Nordisk), dulaglutide (Trulicity, Eli Lilly), semaglutide (Ozempic, Novo Nordisk), exenatide and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Eli Lilly)
