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Study identifies first drug therapy for sleep apnea

health.ucsd.edu

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Is this essentially a weight loss drug that helps sleep apnea? Seems like weight loss and metabolic improvement is the thing that is the actual thing that helps sleep apnea.

Yes, you are correct. This is a native (disguised) ad. The interviewee dances around it but the positive OSA effect is due to improvements in weight/metabolic health from weight loss.

“ Funding support for the study came, in part, from Eli Lilly and Company.

Disclosure: Atul Malhotra serves as a consultant to Eli Lilly and Company.”

And from Lilly.com: “ Mounjaro® and its delivery device base are registered trademarks owned or licensed by Eli Lilly and Company, its subsidiaries, or affiliates.”

The internet is now made up of 35% staged videos, 35% ads and the rest are just AI generated seo landfill trash

  Key multiplicity-controlled secondary end points included the percent change in AHI and body weight and changes in hypoxic burden, patient-reported sleep impairment and disturbance, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) concentration, and systolic blood pressure.

hmm... good?

I was wondering how a drug could help with the mechanical process of the airway collapsing.

(honestly, I could more easily imagine an exercise pill)

This is kind of obvious to use semiglutides for this - most OSA is caused by obesity in this country.

I feel like the article title should've specified Obstructive.

Yes I know it says it right below it.

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