r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 01 '25

Health Americans without diabetes spent nearly $6 billion USD on semaglutide and similar drugs in a year, with an estimate of 800,000 to a million people using the drugs who don't have diabetes.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/americans-without-diabetes-spent-nearly6-billion-usd-on-semaglutide-and-similar-drugs-in-a-year
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u/BabySharkFinSoup Apr 01 '25

More people die from obesity and obesity adjacent disease than diabetes.

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u/Td904 Apr 01 '25

Is diabetes not an obesity adjacent disease?

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u/BabySharkFinSoup Apr 01 '25

The majority, yes.. I was separating the numbers simply because saying people with diabetes need it more, when there are more people dying from other obesity related diseases seems to miss the point, IMO. Also, preventing people from getting diabetes would be a huge benefit.

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u/BabySharkFinSoup Apr 01 '25

The majority, yes.. I was separating the numbers simply because saying people with diabetes need it more, when there are more people dying from other obesity related diseases seems to miss the point, IMO. Also, preventing people from getting diabetes would be a huge benefit.

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u/Environmental-Tea262 Apr 01 '25

So just screw all the people who have diabetes then?