Could Ozempic save you from a heart attack?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Researchers found after three years of treatment participants had a 20% lower risk of obesity and its associated health impacts, which currently cost the NHS over £6bn per year.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to Sky’s science and medical correspondent Thomas Moore about the implications of reducing heart disease cases for the NHS, and senior lecturer in physiology at Anglia Ruskin University Dr Simon Cork explains how the wonder-drug actually works.
Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Podcast Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:32.2 | I mean the new Chok Marks egg, |
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| 0:39.1 | about the big daddy loaded half egg filled with caramel and peanut chunks and dark chocolate pieces |
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| 0:56.4 | This is not just food. |
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| 1:00.5 | Hello there. |
| 1:01.1 | What a political move to stick two fingers up at Suella Bravman. |
| 1:04.6 | Politics at Jack and Sam's is the podcast where we tell you what's going to happen next week in the wild world of Westminster. |
| 1:11.7 | My name is Jack Blanchard of Politico. And with me, as always, is the great Sam Coates of Sky News. |
| 1:17.1 | Keeping you ahead of the political agenda. One top civil servant said to me, they're 70-30 in favour of thinking something will happen as soon as Monday. |
| 1:24.5 | Sam, is it going to happen? Yes or no? |
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