The use of weight-loss drugs continues to increase. Researchers now warn there is a risk that muscle mass may also decrease as people lose weight. It is important to combine the treatment with as much physical activity as possible, says chief physician Ylva Trolle Lagerros.
SwedenPatients may continue to pay for obesity drugs themselves. The Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency (TLV) has rejected subsidies for the obesity drug Wegovy.
SwedenSales of weight-loss drugs are skyrocketing. Now pharmacists are sounding the alarm that people are tampering with doses to make them last longer. Fake weight-loss drugs for injection are also being marketed online. "You should absolutely not buy and inject anything if you don't know what it is," says Ylva Trolle Lagerros, professor at Karolinska Institutet.
SwedenSales of weight-loss drugs are skyrocketing. Now pharmacists are sounding the alarm that people are tampering with doses to make them last longer. Fake weight-loss drugs for injection are also being marketed online. "You should absolutely not buy and inject anything if you don't know what it is," says Ylva Trolle Lagerros, professor at Karolinska Institutet.
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