Given that obesity and hypertension frequently coexist and together substantially increase cardiovascular and kidney risk, these findings support obesity treatment as an important component of blood pressure management and cardiovascular risk reduction, said lead researcher Marcel Muskiet, MD, PhD, an internist, endocrinologist, and vascular medicine specialist in the Department of Medicine at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands
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Theyve changed the way millions of Americans eat by changing their relationship with food, essentially forcing them to eat more healthfully, and as a result, helping them to lose weight and keep it off
NICE has approved semaglutide (Wegovy) for specific patient groups, but implementation varies by region due to service capacity and local integrated care board (ICB) decisions