In Good Health: The obesity rate is falling. What do weight loss drugs have to do with it?

WAMU 88.5 | By Arfie Ghedi

Published October 9, 2024 at 6:22 AM MDT

This picture shows Ozempic medication boxes, an injectable antidiabetic drug, in a pharmacy.

For the first time in decades, obesity rates in the U.S.

down from 41.9 percent in 2020, according to the latest National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from the CDC.

While the study doesn鈥檛 pinpoint one sole reason for the change, the timing coincides with the rise of a new class of drugs targeting diabetes and weight loss,

As part of our series In Good Health, we discuss these new medications and the falling rate of obesity.

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In Good Health: The obesity rate is falling. What do weight loss drugs have to do with it?

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