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Weight-loss drugs reduce risk of Alzheimer’s, large study shows

Analysis of drugs such as Ozempic finds a lower health risk for 42 conditions but a higher rate of disorders such as arthritis
Researchers were inspired by the popularity of the drugs, with one in eight Americans reported to be taking them

Patients who took popular weight loss drugs were 12 per cent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease but were more at risk of arthritic, kidney and pancreatic disorders, according to the largest ever study of the medicines’ widening impact.

A cohort of 215,000 US military veterans with diabetes who used so-called GLP-1 treatments showed lower health risk for 42 condition and a higher risk for 19 others, compared with those who took older medicines.

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