Dr.SportsMedIN said:

Timing surgery and anaesthesia around surgery: my surgeon required me to stop GLP-1 agonists 3 weeks before my scheduled procedure due to aspiration…

That reframing is the part I needed. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.

Dr.NephBHM_UK said:

The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.

Moderator note: reminder that nothing in this thread is medical advice, and that clinical claims need a source. Carry on.