Ozempic obesity drug cuts heart disease deaths by 20%

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The obesity drug Ozempic cuts a person’s risk of dying from heart disease by 20%, new research has concluded.

The five-year study by University College London tracked the health of 17,604 adults over the age of 45 from 41 countries and concluded it had, Professor Donal O’Shea said there is a “lot of excitement” about the findings which have been presented to the European Congress on Obesity .“If you were on the drug, you had an 8% chance of a major event, if you were not on the drug you had a 10%,” he said.

“In cardiovascular disease, - stroke, heart attack et cetera - this is a major finding and it does have implications for how we will manage prevention into the future.

“There are socio-economic factors at play but if you go back to the early days of Operation Transformation, the idea of us even having these conversations about pharmacotherapy delivering 25% and 30% weight loss is amazing.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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