Gastric transit time was significantly longer and incomplete small bowel evaluation was more common in patients undergoing video capsule endoscopy while on glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists compared with matched controls not taking the drugs in a new study presented at ACG 2024.
A nonsignificant increase in small bowel transit time also was observed, according to investigator Tarek Odah, MD, a research fellow at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla.
As GLP-1s have emerged as a widely used