Science is incredible. A diabetes medication could well, completely unknowingly, be about to significantly reduce rates of obesity, addiction and related illnesses.
I'm not convinced this isn't all confounders. Taking a very expensive and highly desired medication like Ozympec which is very expensive is going to be a correlate of socioeconomic status, good insurance (maybe even a doc willing to fight for you) or even just caring about your health/looks.
It's possible, but with the RCTs and animal evidence all pointing in the same direction, it seems less likely. And it's notable that the newest GLP-1 outperforms the older ones, within this study.
Sorry, you are correct. I misunderstood the claim to be that a patient would be less likely to die after presenting as an OD (or at least conflated it in my sleepy brain) . But yes I agree there is almost certainly some effect on use -- even though I'm skeptical it's a magic bullet -- and no doubt that will affect ODs.
I really should have read or thought more carefully.
Best reddit comment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ozempic/comments/1fp6y1p/comment/lov960o/
Science is incredible. A diabetes medication could well, completely unknowingly, be about to significantly reduce rates of obesity, addiction and related illnesses.
I'm not convinced this isn't all confounders. Taking a very expensive and highly desired medication like Ozympec which is very expensive is going to be a correlate of socioeconomic status, good insurance (maybe even a doc willing to fight for you) or even just caring about your health/looks.
It's possible, but with the RCTs and animal evidence all pointing in the same direction, it seems less likely. And it's notable that the newest GLP-1 outperforms the older ones, within this study.
Sorry, you are correct. I misunderstood the claim to be that a patient would be less likely to die after presenting as an OD (or at least conflated it in my sleepy brain) . But yes I agree there is almost certainly some effect on use -- even though I'm skeptical it's a magic bullet -- and no doubt that will affect ODs.
I really should have read or thought more carefully.