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Cholesterol and blood-pressure drugs are reshaping the health risks of obesity, a 25-year study finds

Adults with obesity in high-income countries now have blood-pressure and cholesterol levels far closer to those of their normal-weight peers than they did in the early 1990s, driven largely by the spread of statins and antihypertensive medications. A multi-country analysis covering measured health data from 1990 through 2024 found that the gaps in these two […]