US Population Impact of Semaglutide on Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease

[hnburnsy]

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10557-023-07488-3

[chiefalchemist]

"We also estimated 10-year CVD risks utilizing the BMI-based Framingham CVD risk scores."

From what I understand, CVD is a function of more than simply weight. There's also diet and lifestyle (read: movement / exercise). Lowering weight is going to help, but I'm not sure you can extrapolate that to CVD "savings" as they have.

[hnburnsy]

>Results

>...translating to a 46.1% (43.0 M) reduction in obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2) prevalence

>...translating to 1.50 million preventable CVD events over 10 years