Weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy are so popular they’re upending Denmark’s economy.
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They are made by Novo Nordisk, and its market value “has risen by more than a third so far this year to about $419 billion, bigger than the country’s gross domestic product of about $406 billion,” according to The Wall Street Journal. “Because the pharmaceutical industry’s exports have grown so much, it’s creating a big influx of currency into the Danish economy,” Danske Bank director Jens Naervig Pedersen tells WSJ.
  • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ozempic works off label for weight loss while you take it, but you have to keep taking it or you will gain it back. People are gaining even more weight once the side effects of Ozempic make them stop taking it.

    • Tvkan@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The frist part is true for essentially all treatments (not just drugs) for chronic diseases. If someone changes their diet for a year, and then stops maintaining this diet, they’ll gain their weight back.

      Is there any data for the second part? It sounds plausible to me, but many things are plausible but not actually true.