The drugs, most commonly associated with obesity and diabetes care, are becoming a major factor in weight loss medicine, but that has also led to controversy over a nationwide shortage.
in the United States have Type 2 diabetes. Reitano said it is important to recognize both obesity and diabetes as diseases that deserve proper treatment.
He told CNBC's Jim Cramer that the once a week injections do three"very, very important things" when comes to obesity. They help regulate sugar levels; they help regulate appetite; and they slow the passage of food from the stomach to the small intestine. This combination of controls has helped patients in clinical studies lose on average 15% of body weight over a year.
"If we saw obesity as a disease, and we're both focused on preventing it but once it happens treating it and treating it as a disease, I think we're going to see an entirely different approach," he said. "High-quality obesity care is an important part of it," he told Cramer."Patients can't just receive these medications and be left to their own devices."
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