Paris: The fight against obesity is one of the major challenges of 21st century medicine.

This chronic disease, with its numerous physical, psychological, and social complications, has seen its global prevalence double between 1990 and 2022, at which point it affects, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than one billion people (880 million adults and 160 million children).

France is not spared. It is estimated that approximately 8 million French men and women are currently affected by obesity. Its prevalence increased from 8.5% in 1997 to 15% in 2012, then to 17% in 2020 , and this trend is expected to continue in the coming years .

Recently, new drugs - analogs of the gut hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) - have been added to the therapeutic arsenal, raising

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