Weight Loss Pens: Pediatricians Alert to Risk of Use in Children
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Brazilian Society of Pediatrics states that medications to treat obesity should be used with indication and medical follow-up and warns about the risks of use for aesthetic purposes
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tnh1.com.brThe Brazilian Society of Pediatrics (SBP) has published a warning note on the use without indication and without medical follow-up of medications of the class of GLP 1 receptor agonists, popularly known as weight loss pens, by children and adolescents. According to the report, the inappropriate use can increase the frequency and severity of adverse events. Among the risks of the use without follow-up are deficit of growth and development; dehydr…
The SBP (Brazilian Society of Pediatrics) publishes, on Monday (24), a technical note to alert the doctors about the use of weight loss pens by children and adolescents. Read more (08/24/2026
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