The weight loss jabs, sold under the brand names Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus, are set to rollout on the NHS and could improve the symptoms of heart failure in obese patients
and Rybelsus – to treat overweight people with a condition called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction .
The median age of the group was 69 and the median weight was 105.1kg – that ranges from a BMI of 31 for someone 6′ tall to 45 for someone just over 5′ tall. One group was given a once-weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg for one year while the other was given a placebo. He added: “To our knowledge, this is the first trial of a pharmacologic agent to specifically target obesity as a treatment strategy for HFpEF, and the magnitude of the benefits we observed is the largest seen with any agent in HFpEF.
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