{"id":202817,"date":"2024-12-30T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T21:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ozempic-and-wegovy-have-heart-health-benefits-beyond-just-weight-loss"},"modified":"2024-12-30T15:42:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T21:42:36","slug":"ozempic-and-wegovy-have-heart-health-benefits-beyond-just-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ozempic-and-wegovy-have-heart-health-benefits-beyond-just-weight-loss","title":{"rendered":"Ozempic and Wegovy have heart health benefits beyond just weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ozempic-and-wegovy-have-heart-health-benefits-beyond-just-weight-loss2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, a drug called semaglutide, can have direct beneficial effects on the heart within weeks, in addition to the longer-term benefits of losing weight, an animal study has shown.<\/p>\n<p>The finding suggests that people with heart disease who don\u2019t have type 2 diabetes or obesity, which semaglutide is primarily used to treat, might also benefit from taking this kind of drug. \u201cIt may be that we\u2019re missing a large population of people that could benefit,\u201d says Christopher Stone at Brown University in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>The findings also suggest that people undergoing heart surgery could benefit if given GLP-1 agonists, the class of drugs that semaglutide belongs to, for at least a few weeks after their operation.<\/p>\n<p>Image: JUAN GAERTNER\/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY\/Alamy<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A study in pigs has shown that the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy directly boosts heart health, in addition to the benefits of losing weight.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/michael-le-page\/\" class=\"\">Michael Le Page<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ozempic-and-wegovy-have-heart-health-benefits-beyond-just-weight-loss\">Continue reading \u201cOzempic and Wegovy have heart health benefits beyond just weight loss\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, a drug called semaglutide, can have direct beneficial effects on the heart within weeks, in addition to the longer-term benefits of losing weight, an animal study has shown. The finding suggests that people with heart disease who don\u2019t have type 2 diabetes or obesity, which semaglutide is primarily [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}