{"id":228299,"date":"2026-01-03T13:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/increasing-postpartum-use-of-glp-1-receptor-agonists"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:16:55","slug":"increasing-postpartum-use-of-glp-1-receptor-agonists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/increasing-postpartum-use-of-glp-1-receptor-agonists","title":{"rendered":"Increasing Postpartum Use of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/increasing-postpartum-use-of-glp-1-receptor-agonists.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Postpartum prescription of GLP-1RAs in Denmark increased between 2018 and 2024, with semaglutide accounting for most prescriptions since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Most users had overweight or obesity, and only 23% had a diabetes diagnosis, suggesting weight reduction as the main reason for use.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This study uses data from the Danish Medical Birth Register to examine postpartum use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postpartum prescription of GLP-1RAs in Denmark increased between 2018 and 2024, with semaglutide accounting for most prescriptions since 2023. Most users had overweight or obesity, and only 23% had a diabetes diagnosis, suggesting weight reduction as the main reason for use. This study uses data from the Danish Medical Birth Register to examine postpartum use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}