9/12/2024 –
GLP-1 drugs are “the most effective drugs we’ve ever invented for obesity treatment,” but they “aren’t going to cure the obesity epidemic,” says one public health expert.
Speaking at a panel debate hosted by the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University on Wednesday, Tufts professor of medicine Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian explained: “These are… the biggest blockbuster drugs ever invented. The numbers are astonishing, because on average, in randomized trials, they give weight loss of about 12-18% which is much larger than anything we’ve previously seen.
“If you look at outside the trials in real life practice, they give weight loss of about 10%, and 10% is meaningful. But I want to emphasize that at the same time, they aren’t going to cure the obesity epidemic.”…
