{"id":787921,"date":"2026-07-27T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787921\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:14:07","slug":"weight-loss-drugs-reduce-some-employee-sick-time-a-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787921\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight loss drugs reduce some employee sick time, a study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"I3VI4QP5LFDIXFBWEASI3BDM3E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Savings to the overall health care economy from GLP-1 drugs have yet to be proven, but researchers have found evidence that health benefits could spill into the labor market.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"F5YFJGEB2BEJHJ7OCQXLV7OKM4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w35475\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w35475\">study<\/a> of workers in Denmark showed a 17.3 percent decline in long-term sick leave among those who were treated with Ozempic, the diabetes drug, according to results published this month in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper. The researchers were from the University of Copenhagen, the University of Chicago, Duke University and the Rockwool Foundation \u2014 an independent organization that conducts research on social and economic issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Savings to the overall health care economy from GLP-1 drugs have yet to be proven, but researchers have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243],"class_list":["post-787921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}