New Weight Loss Drug: Wegovy

[madman]

Martin Miner, MD, is the co-director of the Men’s Health Center at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and a clinical professor of family medicine and urology at Brown University. Here, PCRI's resident moderator, Mark Moyad, MD, MPH, asks Dr. Miner about "semaglutide," a medication used to facilitate weight loss. He asks if it is really the game-changer it is hyped up to be and how it compares to weight loss medications that have been used in the past and even presently.

 

[madman]

Generic weight loss injection to be game-changer for weight loss patients

We know when it comes to losing weight and keeping it off, genetics make it more difficult for some people, but when we told you about a new medication, called a weight loss game-changer, not everyone could get it. $$$

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Semaglutide Forum: Game Changer for Weight Loss

Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH & Martin M. Miner, MD, discuss the potential benefits of semaglutide, a newly approved weight-loss drug. Semaglutide is a medication that has been approved by the FDA to treat type 2 diabetes and has also been approved for obesity management under the brand name Wegovy...

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[madman]

Martin Miner:

*this is the only drug when I was going through in the talk though you saw those changes in obesity in these placebo-controlled trials after one year was less than 6% with bariatric surgery you can achieve between 15 and 18% weight loss of body mass over a year to a year and a half with these medications you can now achieve that same weight loss as bariatric surgery with the medication and maintain it