They work by regulating blood sugar, reducing appetite, and slowing digestion
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The studies excluded patients on any other migraine preventive treatment, patients with medication overuse headache, patients with ECG abnormalities compatible with an acute cardiovascular event and patients with a history of stroke, myocardial infarction, unstable angina, percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass grafting, deep vein thrombosis, or pulmonary embolism within 6 months of screening
It's a set of priorities that account for the fact that you're eating dramatically less food, and every bite has to pull more nutritional weight than it did before
The initial consultation takes the guesswork out of the process