{"id":603760,"date":"2026-08-25T03:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603760\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T03:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:32:23","slug":"doctors-not-fixated-on-weight-loss-drug-mounjaro-says-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603760\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors not &#8216;fixated&#8217; on weight-loss drug Mounjaro, says coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doctors did not fixate on a grandmother&#8217;s use of Mounjaro weight-loss medication before her death, an inquest heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family of 73-year-old Caroline Savage voiced concerns that clinicians too readily attributed her symptoms to side effects of the drug before her death in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Norfolk area coroner Yvonne Blake said medics had considered other possibilities too, including pancreatitis or an aortic aneurysm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blake added: &#8220;It&#8217;s not clear to me from the evidence that the doctors were fixated with Mounjaro.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She noted that the mother-of-three &#8220;had an increasing dose [of Mounjaro], but hadn&#8217;t yet given herself the increasing dose&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there was an overshadowing by doctors,&#8221; Blake said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mounjaro was not mentioned in the coroner&#8217;s narrative conclusion, which found Savage died near Harleston of faecal peritonitis due to perforated sigmoid diverticular disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is where faecal matter leaks into the abdominal cavity due to a perforation of the intestines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doctors did not fixate on a grandmother&#8217;s use of Mounjaro weight-loss medication before her death, an inquest heard.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,61,60,371],"class_list":["post-603760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}