Therefore, a total of 127 studies were included, of which 19 studies were RCTs [44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62] involving 1305 participants, and 108 studies were non-RCTs [11, 63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169] involving 4725 participants
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Retatrutide is currently only available through clinical trials