“About 67% of people with type 1 diabetes have overweight or obesity. Thus, they have some insulin resistance, and they get all of the problems that you get with type 2 diabetes,” Satish K. Garg, professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Healio. “[Tirzepatide is prescribed to] help them lose weight.”
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