Bariatric Surgery's Role Amid GLP-1 in Obesity Fight

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About The Study: This cross-sectional study of privately insured patients found a more than 2-fold increase in use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) as anti-obesity medications from 2022 to 2023, with a 25.6% decrease in the rate of metabolic bariatric surgery during the same period. Our results provide a national contemporaneous estimate of the decline in metabolic bariatric surgery associated with the era of GLP-1 RAs.

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