The article doesn't really explore the reasons why for this quote:
> Our concern with the current state of obesity treatment is that the marketing of GLP-1 medications and their massive popularity is overshadowing scientific evidence supporting metabolic and bariatric surgery as the most efficacious therapy for obesity,” lead study author Tyler Cohn, a surgeon and associate professor at Loyola University Medical Center, told Gizmodo.
That seems surprising for me, my Intution says surely surgery would be a last resut before trying ozempic?
prism56•16m ago
> Our concern with the current state of obesity treatment is that the marketing of GLP-1 medications and their massive popularity is overshadowing scientific evidence supporting metabolic and bariatric surgery as the most efficacious therapy for obesity,” lead study author Tyler Cohn, a surgeon and associate professor at Loyola University Medical Center, told Gizmodo.
That seems surprising for me, my Intution says surely surgery would be a last resut before trying ozempic?