Weight loss 'pill for life' could protect against serious illness

A DAILY weight loss pill could help millions of people avoid needing a raft of drugs for conditions such as high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes, an expert said.

- BY HANNA GEISSLER Health Editor in Istanbul

A tablet form of GLP-1 medication, known as orforglipron, is now being reviewed by the UK medicines regulator.

And Dr Louis Aronne, of Weill Cornell Medicine, in New York, told an international conference that the new tablet could be “a pill for life”.

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He suggested it could one day be prescribed when people first become overweight to prevent them going on to be obese and develop serious health problems.