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A weekly dose of a diabetes drug appears to lead to significant weight loss in people with obesity, in a development experts have hailed as game-changing.
Obesity causes 1.2 million deaths in Europe each year, according to the World Health Organisation, and the UK has one of the worst obesity rates.
Efforts to tackle the disease have long been focused on diet and exercise, but many people who lose weight this way find they regain it over time.
Now researchers say a diabetes drug used alongside such interventions can help people with obesity. Participants in a 72-week trial lost as much as 20% of their body weight.
Writing in the New England Medical journal, an international team report how they randomly split 2,539 overweight or obese participants into four equal groups.
www.theguardian.com
Obesity causes 1.2 million deaths in Europe each year, according to the World Health Organisation, and the UK has one of the worst obesity rates.
Efforts to tackle the disease have long been focused on diet and exercise, but many people who lose weight this way find they regain it over time.
Now researchers say a diabetes drug used alongside such interventions can help people with obesity. Participants in a 72-week trial lost as much as 20% of their body weight.
Writing in the New England Medical journal, an international team report how they randomly split 2,539 overweight or obese participants into four equal groups.
Diabetes drug leads to notable weight loss in people with obesity – study
Experts say the apparent effects of a weekly dose of tirzepatide are potentially game changing
www.theguardian.com