Potent new anti-obesity drugs can reduce body weight by 15-20%. However, regulation and costs limit who can take them
anti-obesity drugs can reduce body weight by 15-20%. However, regulation and costs limit who can take them. In America, the Food and Drug Administration has approved just one of the new drugs, Wegovy, for weight loss—and only for patients with a body-mass index above certain thresholds. The cut-off is 27 for people with weight-related illnesses, and 30 otherwise. For someone 1.7 metres tall, these correspond to 78kg and 87kg. People with lowers can try to get a prescription anyway.
may be excluding non-white people whom Wegovy could help. To measure racial gaps, we first estimated rates of diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol for white people with
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