Stress levels, sleep quality, underlying conditions like insulin resistance or PCOSthese are all important pieces of the puzzle that diet and exercise alone cant always solve
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Those included various baseline characteristic including demographics (age, gender, race), comorbidities (e.g., liver diseases, chronic lower respiratory diseases, diabetic complications, obesity and neoplasm), medications (e.g., insulin, metformin, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), tacrolimus, cyclosporine, mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), and corticosteroids), as well as laboratory tests and physical findings (e.g., hemoglobin, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, lipid profile, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and systolic blood pressure (SBP))
One Canadian-specific point worth knowing is that orlistat is prescription-only here
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