STAT July 1, 2024
My dad, Randy, a 72-year-old retired sales manager, started to gain weight after grad school, and it didn’t let up until he was middle-aged. He’s now living with high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
His cardiologist has told him, “You know, if you lost 15 pounds, you could get off your blood pressure medicine.”
When my dad started seeing commercials for Wegovy, he was curious but skeptical. Injections seemed invasive, and he wondered how the drug would interact with the other medications he was taking. But after trying many diets with no lasting success, he began wondering if taking a medication for weight loss was the right thing to do for his health.
As he wondered, the rest of the...
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