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FDA approves Novo Nordisk's new Wegovy® HD injection, delivering the highest weight loss to date for a Wegovy® injection, adding to its already expansive clinical profile

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FDA approves Novo Nordisk's new Wegovy® HD injection, delivering the highest weight loss to date for a Wegovy® injection, adding to its already expansive clinical profile Average weight loss of ~21% at 72 weeks in adults with obesity if all patients stayed on treatment* with Wegovy® HD (~19% regardless of whether patie…
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  • Obesity is a serious, chronic, progressive, and complex disease requiring long-term management, not just a disease of lack of willpower

    60% confidence
  • Wegovy is the only GLP-1 for adults with obesity proven to reduce the risk of events such as stroke, heart attack, or cardiovascular death in those with known heart disease

    60% confidence
  • Wegovy HD represents an important new tool in obesity management that allows clinicians to better tailor treatment strategies and improve outcomes

    60% confidence
  • No other weight loss medicine has been studied to show superiority to Wegovy HD

    60% confidence
  • The weight loss demonstrated with Wegovy HD could reshape healthcare professionals' expectations about what outcomes are possible for patients with Wegovy

    60% confidence

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Novo Nordisk · pharmacy distribution network70000 pharmacies
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