Prescriptions for weight loss, diabetes drugs for young people leaped 600% since 2020, study says

Dr. Melanie Cree, a pediatric endocrinologist [and director of the Multi-Disciplinary PCOS clinic] at Children’s Hospital Colorado [and associate professor at University of Colorado School of Medicine] who has been working with this class of medication in clinical trials with children for almost a decade, says the drugs have been a game-changer not just to help kids lose weight and lower blood sugar, but also to lower liver fat and improve cardiac and kidney function – “all of those conditions that go with type 2 diabetes.”