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Keith Roach

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Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill-Cornell; syndicated columnist To Your Good Health
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GLP-1 Agonists Might Help Obese Man With Drinking Habit

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By Keith Roach Verified
| Cascade Courier Verified
DEAR DR. ROACH: My brother-in-law is a lovely man, but for years, he’s suffered from obesity. He also gambles and drinks alcohol too much. I hesitate to get too involved, but I recently read that the new weight-loss drugs based on GLP-1 agonists are also helpful in reducing alcohol and gambling addictions. This sounds too good to be true. Is it? -- D.N.A. ANSWER: The evidence is very strong that GLP-1 agonists like tirzepatide (Zepbound) and semaglutide (Wegovy) help people lose weight.
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Dear Doctor: Son is subsisting on junk food since his gut becomes a mess when he eats healthy

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By Keith Roach Verified
| Syracuse.com Verified
DEAR DR. ROACH: My son, who is 28, has always had issues with his gut. Almost everything passes through his intestines quickly. He frequently sees undigested vegetables in his stool. He had intestinal pain and underwent upper and lower GI scopes because the doctor suspected Crohn’s or inflammatory bowel disease. But he found nothing other than inflammation in his stomach, for which he ordered Protonix; this helped with the pain. His BMI is below 18 and has always been this way.
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Dr. Roach: Explaining the significance of Z- and T-scores in DEXA scans

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By Keith Roach Verified
| Aol Verified
Dr. Roach: Explaining the significance of Z- and T-scores in DEXA scans Dear Dr. Roach: I'm a woman of 54 with somewhat limited mobility due to back pain. Perhaps for this reason, my primary care physician ordered a DEXA scan in 2023 and again in 2026. I was alarmed when the recent scan showed osteopenia in five of the six areas that were tested. I thought the 2023 scan was normal, but when I revisited it, I saw that I had osteopenia then as well.
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