{"id":219910,"date":"2025-08-12T08:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-research-confirms-weight-loss-drug-link-with-sudden-vision-loss"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:06:50","slug":"new-research-confirms-weight-loss-drug-link-with-sudden-vision-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-research-confirms-weight-loss-drug-link-with-sudden-vision-loss","title":{"rendered":"New Research Confirms Weight-Loss Drug Link With Sudden Vision Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-confirms-weight-loss-drug-link-with-sudden-vision-loss.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro (known as semaglutide and tirzepatide) have changed the way clinicians manage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/diabetes\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">diabetes<\/a> and obesity around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Collectively known as <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/treatments\/13901-glp-1-agonists\">GLP-1 agonists<\/a>, these drugs mimic the hormone GLP-1. This limits both hunger and interest in food, helping users lose weight, and helps control blood sugar levels.<\/p>\n<p>But two new studies published today show that people taking these drugs may have a small increased risk of serious eye conditions and vision loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro (known as semaglutide and tirzepatide) have changed the way clinicians manage diabetes and obesity around the world. Collectively known as GLP-1 agonists, these drugs mimic the hormone GLP-1. This limits both hunger and interest in food, helping users lose weight, and helps control blood sugar levels. But two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219910","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}