Family medicine clinicians need to recognize that the semaglutide 7.2mg trial enrolled populations that may not reflect their actual patient demographics, particularly with overrepresentation of cisgender women who demonstrate greater weight loss response to GLP-1 agonists and underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities. This enrollment bias limits the generalizability of efficacy and safety data to diverse primary care populations, requiring clinicians to counsel patients that individual outcomes may differ from trial results. Clinicians should anticipate variable treatment responses across their patient population and monitor for differential tolerability and efficacy based on demographic characteristics that were not adequately represented in pivotal trial populations.

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Semaglutide 7.2mg demonstrated significant weight loss efficacy in clinical trials, but enrollment patterns skewed toward cisgender women and underrepresented People of Color and transgender individuals. This demographic limitation means efficacy and safety data may not uniformly apply across all patient populations, requiring individualized clinical assessment. Real-world effectiveness in underrepresented groups remains less well-characterized and warrants close monitoring during therapy. When initiating GLP-1 therapy, clinicians should explicitly discuss that trial populations may not reflect their patient’s demographic characteristics and establish clear, personalized weight and metabolic goals rather than relying solely on trial-based expectations.

“The composition of our clinical trial populations matters enormously, and this piece rightfully highlights how demographic skewing toward cisgender women artificially inflates our expectations for real-world weight loss outcomes. When we’re counseling patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups or transgender patients about semaglutide efficacy, we need to acknowledge honestly that the evidence base may not fully reflect their physiological response. This isn’t about the drug’s efficacy being variable by identity alone, but rather about acknowledging that trial populations shape the clinical picture we’re interpreting, and our patients deserve transparency about those limitations rather than cookie-cutter projections based on predominantly female, predominantly white trial cohorts. In practice, I tell patients that we’re titrating to their individual response, not to an average derived from a population that may not look like them.”

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