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Dr. Ajaykumar Rao Offers Insight to Medscape on the Rise in GLP-1 Overdoses

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Ajaykumar D. Rao, MD, MMSc, FACP, Chief of the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, offered insight to Medscape on the rise of GLP-1 overdoses, with poison centers seeing a nearly 1500% increase in calls related to overdose or side effects of injectable weight-loss drugs since 2019, according to U.S. National Poison Data Center.