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Omar Paipilla is the medical director of Hospital Ciba in Tijuana, Mexico, and a board-certified bariatric surgeon who has performed thousands of successful weight loss surgeries such as gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, gastric band, and vertical gastroplasty with lap band revision surgeries and comprehensive obesity management
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Wegovy is now the first weight loss medication to also be approved to help prevent life-threatening cardiovascular events in adults with CVD and either obesity or overweight, John Sharretts, MD, director of the division of diabetes, lipid disorders and obesity in the FDAs Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in the statement