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The most common reason to prescribe an oral GLP-1 is the patients preference, says Pruthvi Raj Velamala, MD, a board-certified obesity medicine physician at Beth Israel Lahey Health in Beverly, Massachusetts

Its also FDA-approved under the brand name Victoza to treat type 2 diabetes and to reduce the risk of adverse cardiovascular events in adults with type 2 diabetes and established cardiovascular disease

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Most GLP-1s are given as shots

However, further studies are needed to elucidate the safety of other drugs in the class for patients that experience a hypersensitivity reaction to one GLP-1 receptor agonist