Saunders, MD, DABOM, the co-founder of Intellihealth and a physician at Weill Cornell Medicine
Barriers to initiating treatment may include delayed recognition of obesity as a disease by public health and medical organizations, provider biases regarding patients with obesity, lack of reimbursement leading to out-of-pocket costs to patients, inadequate training of providers, historical safety issues with AOMs, and perceptions of patients and their caregivers regarding the efficacy of AOMs [14,15,16,17]
In China, beyond the in-market products such as semaglutide and tirzepatide and promising global pipeline assets including orforglipron (oral), MariTide (monthly injectable) and retatrutide (triple agonist), a range of China-only molecules is also emerging with strong competitiveness (see Table 2)
Smarter Metabolic Support
Tsukiyama K, Yamada Y, Yamada C, et al
The protocol is more complex than a once-weekly Retatrutide injection, and the magnitude of fat loss achievable is almost certainly lower based on the mechanisms involved