75% of GPs have prescribed anti-obesity drugs

THREE-out-of-every-four GPs have referred a patient for obesity-battling medications, while almost all have patients who had invasive weight-related surgery with or without their doctor’s approval.

A new study by Trinity College, Dublin’s (TCD’s) department of primary care and public health has found further evidence Ireland is in the grip of an obesity epidemic.

According to the survey, published in the latest edition of the Irish Medical Journal, three quarters of the country’s 2,500 GPs have a patient who has received some form of anti-obesity medication.