🚨 GLP-1 medications are not weight loss drugs that help the heart. They are cardiovascular drugs that also cause weight loss. The SELECT Trial enrolled 17,604 patients without diabetes. Semaglutide cut major cardiovascular events by 20%. Here is what stopped cardiologists in their tracks. The mediation analysis showed that more than half of that heart protection happened through mechanisms completely independent of weight loss. The benefit appeared before significant weight loss even occurred.
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🚨 GLP-1 medications are not weight loss drugs that help the heart. They are cardiovascular drugs that also cause weight loss. The SELECT Trial enrolled 17,604 patients without diabetes. Semaglutide cut major cardiovascular events by 20%. Here is what stopped cardiologists in their tracks. The mediation analysis showed that more than half of that heart protection happened through mechanisms completely independent of weight loss. The benefit appeared before significant weight loss even occurred.
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