{"id":7998,"date":"2024-06-18T06:59:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T06:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=7998"},"modified":"2024-06-18T07:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T07:25:24","slug":"doctors-test-the-limits-of-what-obesity-drugs-can-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=7998","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Test the Limits of What Obesity Drugs Can Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Obesity first\u2019 doctors say they start with one pill, to treat obesity, and often find other chronic diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis, simply vanish<\/p>\n

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Lesa Walton suffered for years with rheumatoid arthritis. \u201cIt was awful,\u201d said Ms. Walton, 57, who lives in Wenatchee, Wash. \u201cI kept getting sicker and sicker.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also had high blood pressure, and she was obese. Doctors told her to diet and exercise, which she did, to no avail.<\/p>\n

Then she found a doctor who prescribed Wegovy, one of the new obesity drugs. Not only did she lose more than 50 pounds, she said; her arthritis cleared up, and she no longer needed pills to lower her blood pressure.<\/p>\n

Her new doctor, Dr. Stefie Deeds, an internist and obesity medicine specialist in private practice in Seattle, said that Ms. Walton exemplifies a growing movement in obesity medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Proponents call it \u201cobesity first.\u201d The idea is to treat obesity with medications approved for that use. As obesity comes under control, they note, the patient\u2019s other chronic diseases tend to improve or go away.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are treating the medical condition of obesity and its related complications at the same time,\u201d Dr. Deeds said.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Obesity first\u2019 doctors say they start with one pill, to treat obesity, and often find other chronic diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis, simply vanishLesa Walton suffered for years with rheumatoid arthritis. \u201cIt was awful,\u201d said Ms. Walton, 57, who lives in Wenatchee, Wash. \u201cI kept getting sicker and sicker.\u201dShe also had high blood pressure, and she was obese. Doctors told her to diet and exercise, which she did, to no avail.Then she found a doctor who prescribed Wegovy, one of the new obesity drugs. Not only did she lose more than 50 pounds, she said; her arthritis cleared up, and she no longer needed pills to lower her blood pressure.Her new doctor, Dr. Stefie Deeds, an internist and obesity medicine specialist in private practice in Seattle, said that Ms. Walton exemplifies a growing movement in obesity medicine.Proponents call it \u201cobesity first.\u201d The idea is to treat obesity with medications approved for that use. As obesity comes under control, they note, the patient\u2019s other chronic diseases tend to improve or go away.\u201cWe are treating the medical condition of obesity and its related complications at the same time,\u201d Dr. Deeds said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8000,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8001,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions\/8001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}