%0 Journal Article
%T A Revolution in the Treatment of Obesity.
%A Spector R
%J Am J Med
%V 0
%N 0
%D 2024 May 22
%M 38788825
%F 5.928
%R 10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.05.023
%X Forty percent of Americans are obese and 20% are overweight. Until recently, notwithstanding great efforts to combat this chronic, worsening epidemic, the only therapy that "worked" was surgery. However, recently, a new class of safe drugs (incretins) have been developed that cause obese patients to lose ∼20 to 25% of their body weight. Herein we recount this revolution and its implications.