WL drugs may improve health in many ways- BBC News

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d5pq4y5wpo

Mainly looking at wegovy I think

Yes the mail just did another incendiary article about how we are all going to get pancreatitis. And small printing the benefits, ignoring it’s a small scale study, ignoring all the main trial data, it is utterly laughable.

Also said it doubled the risk of pancreatitis. Inflammatory, given that if the risk of pancreatitis is 34 in100,000. So... 68 in 100,000 is still pretty fucking low.

Does anyone have access to the full research article? Would love to properly read the numbers.

This is an excellent video, 50 mins long, based on research, very informative..

Furthermore, the presenter is very pleasing to the eye😜

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03412-w.epdf?sharing_token=u5POYTxrU3Nk1kqrl9OoR9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PsuBzQ8kPgW4k_HGFyff8_n9wW6lOiIrhGiAz9iZe6bLIWtOAmTFx_kZM7bZYbMxpT7bqyvkhcprtIMI2aQ74Nos6Wjy_vt-Y5_fT82PI3MjFTVpQ-ev3kixjrbzTPGeCDYqmzfa9LVwpT35U83lO5ID8Wck6ZWwWEXpjyIP244jaYA_kKJk7LkvDyv6cn1Kw%3D&tracking_referrer=www.bbc.co.uk - I could get to the article from the BBC report, does that work for you?

Nature.com research paper

Interestingly this paper and a recent met analysis on it showed no increase risk of pancreatitis.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32720500/

The increase risk of osteoarthritis was interesting as that is one they thought it may be protective in.

Thank you very much@Bluenose1966 and @OddBoots, a really interesting read. What an incredible number of benefits these drugs may offer. The risks appear relatively minor really.

Ohh thank you too @lovealongbath, I will watch this in bed now 😁

Interesting!

All the subjects are people with diabetes, it didn't really mention that on the BBC did it?