roxy_nash said:The dose-response is real but shallow at the top.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Taking it to my next appointment.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly.
Continuous metabolic monitoring dashboard for cardiovascular risk — I track everything in a spreadsheet and here's the month-over-month trend for my key markers:
Weight: consistent downtrend, -2.1 lbs/week average
Fasting glucose (finger stick): stable at 82 mg/dL
Blood pressure (home): 116/72 average
Resting heart rate: 62 bpm (down from 78)
Waist circumference: down 12 inches total
The resting heart rate improvement correlates with cardiovascular fitness gains. Everything is moving in the right direction.
Dr.BariatricHTX said:The mechanism that matters here is not stomach emptying, it is central.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. The trial means are being read too generously in this thread. STEP populations were selected, supported, and titrated by protocol, and the real-world curves are consistently a few points worse. That difference is not noise, it is what happens when you remove the study infrastructure.
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View ResultsDr.PeteFamMed said:SELECT is the trial that changed the framing of this class, because it was an outcome trial rather than a weight trial: about a 20% relative reduction…
CRP reduction on cardiovascular risk — this is the lab result that excites me most:
Baseline hsCRP: 7.0 mg/L (high cardiovascular risk)
Month 6 hsCRP: 2.5 mg/L (moderate risk)
Month 12 hsCRP: 0.4 mg/L (low risk)
This level of inflammatory marker reduction is comparable to what you'd see with statin therapy. Combined with the weight loss, my 10-year ASCVD risk score dropped from 14% to 5%. My cardiologist is genuinely impressed.
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