What do new weight loss drugs mean for the future of bariatric surgery?
Over the past year, weight loss drugs have captured the public’s imagination but also raised existential questions about the future of bariatric surgery.
For obesity, surgery has long been — and continues to be — the most effective treatment, reducing patients’ risk of sleep apnea, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and death. However, the gap between weight loss drugs and bariatric surgery is starting to narrow after Wegovy cut the risk of major heart complications by 20% in Novo Nordisk’s SELECT trial.
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