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Milwaukee/Wisconsin The delayed gastric emptying that occurs during treatment with a GLP-1 agonist increases the risk of aspiration during induction of anesthesia, which can cause life-threatening pneumonia. 5 US specialist societies assess the risk as low overall, but give recommendations in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2024; DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2024.10.003) to avoid the feared…