1 in 8 adults have tried a GLP-1 agonist
The popularity of these drugs has exploded. From CNN: About 1 in 8 adults in the United States has used a GLP-1 drug like Ozempic or Mounjaro at some point in their life, and half of them – about 6% of adults, or more than 15 million people – are currently using a prescription, according […]
Obesity may be causing more deaths
All I can tell you is that obesity complicates everything that I do to take care of patients. It makes surgery harder. It increases surgical complications. It even makes trying to get the right diagnosis harder. From LAT: The death toll of the nation’s obesity epidemic may be close to four times higher than has […]