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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ella Pickover

1m to get ‘life-changing’ weight loss drugs to prevent heart attacks and strokes

More than a million people with heart disease are to be prescribed the weight loss jab Wegovy (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

More than a million people with heart disease are to be prescribed the weight loss jab Wegovy to prevent them from having heart attacks or strokes.

The NHS’s spending watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), has given the green light to giving semaglutide to overweight and obese patients living with certain heart and circulatory conditions to cut their risk of a major cardiovascular event.

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