one correspondent, meg, joins us to break down the survey that is quite a figure. i imagine they have seen the results and they are understandably reaching out to their doctors. there is a huge amount of attention being paid to the medicines and this comes at a time when the backdrop is that more than 30% of u.s. adults are in the overweight category according to the cdc and the nih and more than 40% of adults are considered to have obesity. so, kff did this poll of more than 1300 adults in the u.s. and what they found is among people who said they have more weight to lose. maybe at least 20 pounds, 68% of those folks said they are interested in trying a safe and effective prescription weight loss medicine. what is fascinating in these result is that even 23% of people who said they are not currently trying to lose weight, they re also interested in these medications and that
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