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At cardiology conferences and diabetes meetings, doctors can\u2019t help noticing that thin seems to be very in.<\/p>\n

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When Dr. C. Michael Gibson, a cardiologist at Harvard Medical School, goes to heart disease meetings, he can\u2019t help noticing a change.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will sit around at dinner and halfway through the meal, we will simultaneously push our plates away,\u201d Dr. Gibson said. \u201cWe look at each other and laugh and say, \u2018You, too?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

They share what is becoming an open secret: They tried for years to control their weight but are now taking the new obesity drugs<\/a> manufactured by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk.<\/p>\n

Dr. Robert Califf, the former chief of the Food and Drug Administration, says he hardly recognizes his colleagues. So many are now so thin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cLooking good,\u201d he says he tells his fellow cardiologists at conferences and meetings.<\/p>\n

There are no studies documenting the percentage of doctors taking the drugs. But physicians \u201care a good litmus test for drugs that are highly effective,\u201d Dr. Califf said. If doctors who read the papers describing clinical-trial results are rushing to get a new drug, that is an indication that it\u2019s really promising.<\/p>\n

His colleagues\u2019 use of Wegovy and Zepbound reminds him of the use of statins, drugs that lower cholesterol, in their early days. Cardiologists, who were most familiar with the consequences of high cholesterol levels, were among the first to take the drugs in large numbers.<\/p>\n

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At cardiology conferences and diabetes meetings, doctors can\u2019t help noticing that thin seems to be very in.When Dr. C. Michael Gibson, a cardiologist at Harvard Medical School, goes to heart disease meetings, he can\u2019t help noticing a change.\u201cWe will sit around at dinner and halfway through the meal, we will simultaneously push our plates away,\u201d Dr. Gibson said. \u201cWe look at each other and laugh and say, \u2018You, too?\u2019\u201dThey share what is becoming an open secret: They tried for years to control their weight but are now taking the new obesity drugs manufactured by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk.Dr. Robert Califf, the former chief of the Food and Drug Administration, says he hardly recognizes his colleagues. So many are now so thin.\u201cLooking good,\u201d he says he tells his fellow cardiologists at conferences and meetings.There are no studies documenting the percentage of doctors taking the drugs. But physicians \u201care a good litmus test for drugs that are highly effective,\u201d Dr. Califf said. If doctors who read the papers describing clinical-trial results are rushing to get a new drug, that is an indication that it\u2019s really promising.His colleagues\u2019 use of Wegovy and Zepbound reminds him of the use of statins, drugs that lower cholesterol, in their early days. Cardiologists, who were most familiar with the consequences of high cholesterol levels, were among the first to take the drugs in large numbers.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":2528,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21899,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21897\/revisions\/21899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}