Should teenagers use Wegovy to lose weight?
or a long time, if Dr. Emily Breidbart, a pediatric endocrinologist at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone, wanted to put one of her patients on a weight-loss drug, she often chose. It wasn’t a perfect option. The drug is approved to treat diabetes, not obesity, and typically leads only to “very modest” weight loss, she says. But Breidbart had few other choices for her adolescent patients.
But the approval was also somewhat controversial. Wegovy—an injected semaglutide medication, like its even buzzier sibling—slows digestion and mimics a hormone that regulates appetite, leading people who take the drug to eat far less than before they started taking it.
with obesity, who may experience fatty liver disease, Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and sleep apnea linked to their disease. But it’s also a powerful new drug that doctors are learning about in real time.can make it seem like the drug is everywhere. For adults, it is relatively easy to get a prescription for semaglutide, either to treat Type 2 diabetes or for weight loss. Some people even get prescriptions at medical spas or online. But Dr.
. As a result, both Hernandez and Dr. Claudia Fox, a pediatric obesity specialist and executive committee member of the AAP’s section on obesity, estimate no more than 5% of their pediatric obesity patients are currently using the drug. Fox says she’d like that number to be a bit higher, since shortages and insurance hassles are making it hard to access, but she emphasizes that Wegovy is neither a cure-all nor a one-size-fits-all treatment.
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