What is the role of the rheumatologist in recommending and providing GLP-1 medications to their patients given the benefits across many disease domains including osteoarthritis?

Obesity has long been discussed in the literature as the most modifiable risk factor for knee osteoarthritis pain and progression, with a reduction in knee OA attributed to the decrease in mechanical load. But for the last decade, there has been much attention placed on the impact of metabolic facto...

Rheumatologists frequently see overweight patients who come in for chronic knee pain during exercise, which, after clinical examination and X-rays, is diagnosed as osteoarthritis. However, it has been well demonstrated in the literature that weight loss is central to the treatment of osteoarthritis ...