A new drug for type 2 diabetes has also shown unprecedented weight-loss properties. Non-diabetic obese people lost up to 21 per cent of their body weight in trials. Photo: Shutterstock
Diabetes drug could be weight-loss miracle: patients shed up to 21 per cent of their body weight in trial of tirzepatide
- People who took part in a trial of a newly approved drug for diabetes also lost weight; obese people without diabetes who took it shed up to 27kg
- Tirzepatide is expected to win US Federal Drug Administration approval as a weight-loss drug, joining another diabetic/weight management drug, semaglutide
A new drug for type 2 diabetes has also shown unprecedented weight-loss properties. Non-diabetic obese people lost up to 21 per cent of their body weight in trials. Photo: Shutterstock
