The conversation covers how our understanding of obesity as a chronic, relapsing disease has changed over the past 30 years, what the new clinical versus preclinical obesity framework means for how we diagnose and treat it, how GLP-1 drugs work and why they've succeeded where earlier medications failed, what the STEP and SELECT trials revealed about the disease-modifying potential of semaglutide, and how patients and clinicians should be thinking about who these drugs are really for
Ozempic (semaglutide) Ozempic is the brand-name semaglutide option through Levity, priced at $1,149 for the first month and $1,199 thereafter
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number needed to treat = 44 over 2.1 years)
Their projections showed that if Medicare expanded coverage, three million beneficiaries would likely start using the drugs over the next decade