A Revolution in the Treatment of Obesity.

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Category Primary study
JournalThe American journal of medicine
Year 2024
Forty percent of Americans are obese and 20 percent overweight. Until recently, notwithstanding great efforts to combat this chronic, worsening epidemic, the only therapy that "worked" was surgery. However, recently a new class of safe drugs (incretins) have been developed that cause obese patients to lose ∼20 to 25% of their body weight. Herein we recount this revolution and its implications.
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First added on: May 26, 2024