\u201cYou can kind of think of the medication unlocking two doors instead of one in your body\u2019s metabolism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Leem said that increased the drug\u2019s efficacy.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the maximum doses of Mounjaro, patients on average have lost 22% of the initial weight in the trial, compared to 15% on the maximum dose of Wegovy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cost of the drug was a barrier for some patients, he said.<\/p>\n
Mounjaro is pricier than Wegovy, ranging from $430 to nearly $900 a month.<\/p>\n
\u201cCompetition will hopefully help improve the situation for many patients, however, there still might be a long way to go,\u201d Leem said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe drugs are very expensive, and I do feel for the patients who need it the most but aren\u2019t able to afford a really great option that\u2019s available.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leem said there was a lot of stigma around obesity, which he hoped could be reduced through treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce we have the tools to fight them and treat patients, hopefully the stigma towards obesity goes down, and in turn we can look into other options like bariatric surgery, which is usually much more cost-effective from a public health perspective,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Leem had patients he believed would benefit from the new medication, if price weren\u2019t a factor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s risks and benefits to everything, but for the many, many patients, the benefits greatly outweigh the risks that the medications can impose.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou can kind of think of the medication unlocking two doors instead of one in your body\u2019s metabolism,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19796,3013,8608,2082,134,2959,702,2225,1304,15561,111,139,425,69,3333,1560,35300,18216,102],"class_list":["post-297246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-available","tag-but","tag-comes","tag-for","tag-health","tag-high","tag-it","tag-loss","tag-morning","tag-mounjaro","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-now","tag-nz","tag-price","tag-report","tag-tag","tag-weight","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}