WHO Backs Drugs To Fight Obesity

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00:00Obesity is one of the most serious public challenges of our time.

00:06Globally, more than one billion people are living with obesity,

00:11and that number is expected to double by 2030.

00:15Obesity is a chronic relapsing disease that drives heart disease, diabetes, and some types of cancer.

00:24It was linked with 3.7 million diseases globally last year,

00:28and puts huge strain on health systems and economies.

00:35In recent years, a class of drugs called glocagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists or GLP-1s,

00:46which were originally developed to treat diabetes,

00:50have been approved in many countries for the treatment of obesity.