And while in most people with HIV traditional risk factors are driving their fatty liver disease, we do think there is a component of liver disease that is HIV specific, so some of those secondary effects of semaglutide may have unique benefits in people with HIV. Lake and colleagues enrolled 49 adults with MASLD and HIV into the open-label phase 2b SLIM LIVER study
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