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8mg weekly dose The 8mg tier produced 22.8% body weight loss at 48 weeks

From baseline to week 68, the mean change in knee pain, assessed using the WOMAC pain score, was a reduction of 41.7 points for semaglutide and a decrease of 27.5 points for placebo, with an estimated treatment difference of 14.1 points, which was statistically significant [167]

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Medicine 96 , e8952 (2017)

Persistence is further affected by external factors such as cost and access

Even if all potential candidates chose to pursue it, their sheer numbers would swamp surgical capacity for many years to come
