In the STEP-1 trial of 1,961 adults (Wilding and colleagues, Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity, New England Journal of Medicine, 2021), participants on semaglutide 2.4 mg lost an average of 14.9 percent of their body weight at 68 weeks, compared to 2.4 percent on placebo
The chronic morbidity burden of COVID-19 extends much wider, with up to 10% of individuals across a spectrum of initial disease severity estimated to suffer from long COVID, a durable multisystemic condition with multiple adverse outcomes, such as, myalgia, fatigue, and neurocognitive dysfunction [7]
The scale of this phenomenon has grown from a fringe curiosity into a genuine public health concern
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