WEIGHT loss jabs could be the best ever medication for heart failure, scientists say. US researchers found semaglutide – the drug used in Ozempic and Wegovy – helped reverse symptoms of…
The latest research, presented at the ESC Congress in Amsterdam [PLEASE KEEP], looked at how semaglutide affected people’s heart failure symptoms.
Researchers assessed changes in body weight, as well as changes to heart failure-related symptoms using the clinical summary score of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire , which it described as "gold standard".After 52 weeks, the mean change on the KCCQ-CSS 16.6 points for patients on Wegovy compared to 8.7 points in the placebo group.The mean change to walking distance in six minutes was 21.5 metres for those on Wegovy and 1.2 metres in the placebo group.
Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation and consultant cardiologist, hailed the findings.
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