Dr.SurgeonPGH said:The gap between trial results and real-world results is consistent and it is not fraud.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads.
Gallbladder ultrasound monitoring on gallbladder risk: given the known gallstone risk with rapid weight loss, my doctor orders gallbladder ultrasound every 6 months:
Baseline: normal, no stones or sludge
Month 6: small amount of biliary sludge, no stones
Month 12: sludge resolved, gallbladder normal
Ursodeoxycholic acid (Ursodiol) 300mg BID was prescribed prophylactically from the start. This reduces gallstone formation during rapid weight loss by ~60% per the available data. Ask your doctor about prophylactic ursodiol if you're losing weight rapidly.
Dr.CardioMD said:Read four things before the headline number.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
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View ResultsOne concrete data point for the thread. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.