India's anti-obesity drug market is valued at Rs 3,000-3,500 crore and is projected to grow nearly eightfold to Rs 25,000 crore by 2030, as per estimates.
As obesity management draws awareness and weight-loss injections are launched in India, hospitals are offering customised multidisciplinary treatments, at a cost.
The consortium, Let’s Fix Our Food, has come out with suggestions to control intake of high-fat, salt & sugar foods. Over 17 mn children & adolescents in India are affected by obesity.
US pharma giant Eli Lilly's Mounjaro can prove crucial in treatment of obesity & type 2 diabetes. Launched in the US in 2022, it has since become a global blockbuster.
In 2021, 180 million Indians were either overweight or obese, second only to China. The report estimates that for India, the figure will rise to 450 million in 2050, marking a rise of 150%.
New report by The Lancet released Wednesday has suggested adopting measures apart from body mass index (BMI) to determine excess body fats in individuals and to define obesity.
On the surface, problems with weight may seem simple – the body stores excess energy from food as fat. But the reality is that obesity is a complex chronic disease which can be caused by many interlinked factors.
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