Odds Of Losing Your Nails, Hair Rise With GLP-1 Use

THURSDAY, Oct. 1, 2026 (HealthDay News) — You're up to four times more prone to losing a nail after you start a GLP-1 medicine than before, a new study suggests.  

Risk for nail discoloration also rises when taking GLP-1s, according to a French study. The findings were presented Wednesday in Vienna at the annual meeting of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.

“Until now, nail changes associated with GLP-1 therapies had essentially been anecdotal,” study co-author Dr. Charles Taïeb noted in a meeting news release. He's a clinical dermatologist at Necker University Hospital in Paris.

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