A new large study finds that the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy reduced the risk of serious heart problems by 20% in certain patients. The international trial showed the weekly injections prevented heart attacks, strokes and heart-related deaths.

The popular weight-loss drug Wegovy reduced the risk of serious heart problems by 20% in a large, international study that experts say could change the way doctors treat certain heart patients.

The research is the first to document that an obesity medication can not only pare pounds, but also safely prevent a heart attack, stroke or a heart-related death in people who already have heart disease — but not diabetes.

The findings could shift perceptions that the new class of obesity drugs are cosmetic treatments and put pressure on health insurers to cover them.

  • plague-sapiens@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I don’t know if you have read my other post on one of the comments of it. This one was more generally spoken.

    I’m sorry for you! And hope you’ll get better or can live without much pain.

    Because I live in pain for years now, being sick since I was a child. There are 2 options for me. Do sth or do nothing. Even when I sat in the wheelchair, I went to the gym, same on crutches. Yeah, meds helped a lot, by that I mean big amounts of mostly opioid painkillers. I don’t need them currently, I can walk OKish, my back just still fucked up (broke it 2 times). If I stop my fitness now and stop eating healthier, I would be back on Oxy.

    I’m not against any meds, I’m against the attitude that, yeah I can live unhealthy, because big pharma will safe me.