White House spokesperson Kush Desai denied to the Daily Beast that the president received the drug, citing an X post in which he referred to Stat journalist Lizzy Lawrence as an unserious gossip columnist. But before that, Desai initially did not directly respond to Lawrences inquiry about the patient, who, according to a senior clinician at the National Institutes of Healths main Maryland campus, struggles with refractory obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, and pulmonary hypertension, Stat reported
PIP2, phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists for major cardiovascular and kidney outcomes in type 1 diabetes
One of the real takeaways here is that its possible that patients with breast cancer, especially those who are taking active anti-cancer treatments, may have a harder time losing weight, even with GLP-1s