{"id":683,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/ozempic-and-wegovy-linked-to-blindness-causing-condition\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","slug":"ozempic-and-wegovy-linked-to-blindness-causing-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/ozempic-and-wegovy-linked-to-blindness-causing-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozempic and Wegovy linked to blindness-causing condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-07-11 13:47:12<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Weight-loss jabs Ozempic and Wegovy are linked to an eye condition that causes blindness.<BR><br \/>\nA new study found those with diabetes who were prescribed semaglutide were over four times more likely to be diagnosed with an eye condition known as non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION).<BR><br \/>\nNAION is an uncommon condition that results from a lack of sufficient blood flow to the optic nerve.<BR><br \/>\nSufferers usually have vision loss in one eye that does not often improve \u2013 although they do not feel any pain.<BR><br \/>\nStudy leader Joseph Rizzo, a professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, said: &#8220;The use of these drugs has exploded throughout industrialised countries and they have provided very significant benefits in many ways, but future discussions between a patient and their physician should include NAION as a potential risk.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It is important to appreciate, however, that the increased risk relates to a disorder that is relatively uncommon.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-07-11 13:47:12 Weight-loss jabs Ozempic and Wegovy are linked to an eye condition that causes blindness. A new study found those with diabetes who were prescribed semaglutide were over four&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}