June 12, 2022 · 7:00 AM
Dr Harriet Corridor wrote a short assessment of the brand new weight-loss drug Plenity at Science-Primarily based Drugs. Her conclusion:
To this point, effectiveness has been proven in just one placebo-controlled trial. Weight loss program and train have to be continued. It doesn’t work nicely for everybody: 6 out of 10 customers misplaced no less than 5% of their physique weight; the opposite 4 didn’t. It seems to have fewer unintended effects than different weight reduction merchandise. Not a strategy to obtain excellent weight, however in all probability price attempting for sufferers who perceive that it is just an assist and never a last answer. I hope they are going to be inspired sufficient by a 22-pound weight reduction to proceed reducing weight with or with out Plenity.
Obese and overweight of us with diabetes additionally are likely to drop extra pounds with the brand new once-weekly injection remedy known as tirzepatide, model title Moujaro. (The place do they get these names?!) And do not forget that bariatric surgical procedure is commonly very efficient at weight reduction and controlling diabetes…when you survive the operation.
Steve Parker, M.D.