The hallmark of MIS-C is widespread inflammation across multiple organ systems
For patients who are tolerating the maximal therapeutic dose of a once-daily or twice-daily GLP-1 receptor agonist (exenatide 10 g twice daily, liraglutide 1.8 mg once daily, or lixisenatide 20 mg once daily) but who are changing to a once-weekly GLP-1 receptor agonist, we recommend starting dulaglutide once weekly or exenatide once weekly at the maximal therapeutic dose (dulaglutide 1.5 mg, exenatide 2 mg)
(B) Semaglutide, as a GLP-1 analog, can directly act on fat cells, increase the expression of thermogenic genes for browning phenotype maintenance, improve the expression of uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1), mitochondrial biosynthesis, and thermogenic marker, or promote fatty browning through nitric oxide synthase (NOS), neuropeptides (NPs), sirtuin 1 (STRT1), signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), and bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) signaling
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