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With obesity now being viewed as a potentially life-long metabolic disease with potentially severe consequences, it is also being viewed as a disease likely needing life-long management , possibly even with medications in addition to lifestyle changes, to prevent the yoyo effect of regaining weight once the medication has been stopped or diet discontinued

"This is such a serious sort of potential complication that everybody who takes this drug should know about it," said Hobai, who was among the first to flag the issue

In comparison, those taking the daily oral pill lose about 13% over a similar timeframe