Wegovy wards off heart attacks, as well as causing weight loss
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Wegovy, the weight-loss injection made up of the drug semaglutide, can significantly cut people’s chance of having a heart attack or stroke, a trial has found.
This might seem like just the latest in a long line of positive studies for the medicine, but doctors who work in the field say this is a key result. In time, it could become as normalised to have weight-loss injections for your health as it is to take cholesterol-lowering statins.
Semaglutide is …
