Replay: Could Ozempic save you from a heart attack?
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Anti-obesity jabs like Ozempic could reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes or heart failure in obese people regardless of the amount of weight they lose while on the drug.
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 more than £6bn each 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.
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| 1:00.0 | Hi everybody, Neil Patterson here. |
| 1:02.4 | And while the Daily is on its Christmas break, |
| 1:04.1 | we thought we'd replay you some of the most memorable episodes we recorded in 2024. |
| 1:09.3 | In a moment, we begin with the weight loss drug, Zempic. |
| 1:13.0 | Now, back in May, I sat down with our science and medicine correspondent Thomas Moore |
| 1:17.0 | and Anglia Ruskin University's Dr Simon Cork to try and find out exactly how the drug works |
| 1:23.2 | and how it's doing more than just shedding pounds. |
| 1:31.7 | It's reducing heart disease and even preventing early deaths in some people, |
| 1:33.4 | a potential wonder drug indeed. |
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