Using it to lose weight is what doctors call off-label, meaning it is legal and common but not its official approved purpose
That dual action is the likely reason Mounjaro produced an average weight loss of 20.2%, compared with 13.7% for the standard Wegovy injection, in their head-to-head trial
The LEADER trial 28 (Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes: Evaluation of Cardiovascular Outcome Results) studied a 1.8-mg dose in more than 9,000 patients with type 2 diabetes and found the incidence of acute pancreatitis was similar between the liraglutide and placebo groups (0.4% vs 0.5%, respectively)
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Over the same period, national bariatric surgery use in 2025 was slightly less than half of its 2022 peak
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