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‘Astonishing’ weight loss when GLP-1 drug used with second medication

The most potent of the drugs currently approved for inducing weight loss has an even greater effect when combined with another hormone-targeting treatment.

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The most potent of the drugs currently approved for inducing weight loss has an even greater effect when combined with another hormone-targeting treatment. The findings suggest that combining the two could lead to more effective weight-loss therapies, an approach that could become available for wider use in the next few years. “It’s a pretty astonishing degree of weight loss,” says David Preiss at the University of Oxford, who wasn’t involved in the latest research.

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