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If you have obesity or overweight but not diabetes or cardiovascular disease and your doctor wants to prescribe weight-loss medication, its less likely that your health plan will cover it, but it is possible
"Upon first glance, the magnitude of effect for weight loss seemed implausible," says Eric Trexler of Duke University, who was one of the scientists who pointed out flaws in the study just weeks after it was published
The patients underwent basic treatment with antihypertensive drugs, antiplatelet agents, anticoagulants, statins
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