Doctors did not fixate on a grandmother’s use of Mounjaro weight-loss medication before her death, an inquest heard.<\/p>\n
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
But Norfolk area coroner Yvonne Blake said medics had considered other possibilities too, including pancreatitis or an aortic aneurysm. <\/p>\n
Blake added: “It’s not clear to me from the evidence that the doctors were fixated with Mounjaro.”<\/p>\n
She noted that the mother-of-three “had an increasing dose [of Mounjaro], but hadn’t yet given herself the increasing dose”.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think there was an overshadowing by doctors,” Blake said.<\/p>\n
Mounjaro was not mentioned in the coroner’s narrative conclusion, which found Savage died near Harleston of faecal peritonitis due to perforated sigmoid diverticular disease.<\/p>\n
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’s use of Mounjaro weight-loss medication before her death, an inquest heard.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}