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Description: Weight-loss medication Wegovy has quickly become a popular aid to weight management for many patients.

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THE HOUR AND ALL RIGHT, JOE, THANK YOU. WE WILL SEE YOU THEN. >> WE GO V AND SIMILAR DRUGS HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY POPULAR WAYS TO HELP MANAGE WEIGHT. AND NOW THEY ARE EVEN BEING PRESCRIBED TO TEENAGERS AS MORE PEOPLE TURN TO THIS MEDICATION, WRAL, HEALTH REPORTER, GREAT TABLE SPOKE WITH ONE WEIGHT MANAGEMENT EXPERT ABOUT HOW SHE DETERMINES OF PRESCRIBING IT TO TEENAGERS IS A GOOD IDEA. >> DOCTOR JENNIFER MCCAULEY IS A PHYSICIAN WITH UNC HEALTH. A LOT OF HER WORK INVOLVES HELPING PATIENTS WITH WEIGHT MANAGEMENT. SOMETIMES THAT INVOLVES PRESCRIBING MEDICATIONS LIKE WILL GO V. I DO THINK IT'S ACTUALLY VERY IMPORTANT THAT WHEN WE START MEDICATION FOR WE LOST, THERE'S A THERE'S A LONG CONVERSATION ABOUT WHY WE'RE DOING THAT. MOST OF MY COLLEAGUES, PATIENTS ARE ADULTS. BUT THE DOCTOR SAYS WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS IN SOME WAYS COULD BE MORE BENEFICIAL. IT STARTED AT YOUNGER AGES. WE MAY BE ABLE TO HALT SOME OF WEIGHT RELATED COMPLICATIONS SUCH AS DIABETES, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. THE INCREASED CANCER RISK ASSOCIATED WITH OBESITY. THE STATE SAYS BETWEEN JANUARY, 1ST OF 2023, AND JANUARY 22ND OF THIS YEAR, THERE WERE 60 PAID WILL GO THE CLAIMS FOR MEDICAID BENEFICIARIES UNDER THE AGE OF 18. >> NOW 60 CLAIMS ACCOUNTS FOR A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE OF OUR POPULATION. JUST 0, 0, 0, 4, OF THE OVER 1.3 MILLION NORTH CAROLINIANS UNDER 18 CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN MEDICAID. >> THESE NUMBERS, OF COURSE, DON'T INCLUDE TEENS WITH PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE WHEN DECIDING WHETHER WEIGHT LOSS MEDICATION WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR PATIENTS OF ANY AGE. MCCAULEY SAYS MANY THINGS NEED TO BE CONSIDERED. THAT INCLUDES IF THE PATIENT HAS ALREADY TRIED LOSING WEIGHT IN OTHER WAYS LIKE EXERCISE OR DIET CHANGES, WE HAVE A WHOLE POPULATION OF ADOLESCENCE. >> THAT MAYBE STRUGGLE WITH OTHER MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS SUCH AS AUTISM OR CHROMOSOME. ALL DIFFERENCES THAT ARE WE KNOW FOR SURE AT RISK FOR OBESITY. THE DOCTOR ADDED UNKNOWN LONG-TERM IMPACTS OF TAKING WEIGHT LOSS. MEDICATIONS IS ANOTHER FACTOR TO CONSIDER

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I'm meteorologist, Amy Wilm in the WRL severe weather center. Pretty nice weather today. A mix of sun and clouds with temperatures close to normal for this time of year. We reach 80 degrees in Raleigh and Durham, 79 in Rocky Mount. 81 for the high temperature in Fayetteville. If you want to have dinner outside this evening, it's going to be a lovely evening to do that at 7 p.m. We're in the mid seventies, mostly sunny skies, low seventies at 8 p.m. and then we're back down to the sixties by nine o'clock and certainly no rain in the forecast for today. For the next three days. The weather stays pretty quiet and the big story will be the warming of our temperatures 80 today, 84 Tuesday and then 88 for the high temperature on Wednesday. Once we get to the holiday weekend, that's when things turn unsettled and temperatures will drop a little bit. We have scattered storms in the forecast for Friday, especially Friday night. Saturday, scattered storms possible at any point in time, just a few spotty showers and storms Sunday and then we're back to some scattered storm chances on Monday, no day looks like a washout as of now. So keep checking back in and we'll have a better idea on the exact timing and amounts once we get to around Thursday or so, here's a look at Futurecast. This is for Thursday morning. It's a dry start to the day. But then Thursday night we have some scattered showers. So most of Thursday is dry. It's not until very late. We could see a few showers. Friday morning looks dry. Maybe you're hitting the road early on Friday for the long holiday weekend, it looks dry for most of the state. And then once we get to Friday evening, it's the western half of the state that has some storms for us. It'll be Friday night, an overnight Friday in early Saturday, we'll have a good opportunity for some rain and storms. Saturday morning, rain chances for us fairly slim and really across most of North Carolina rain, chances look pretty low Saturday morning. But then we get into the afternoon and evening, the peak heating and we'll have some scattered showers and thunderstorms. Sunday morning. We could have some rain along the North Carolina coast and then just some hit showers and storms across a good part of the state. But a lot of dry time as well. Monday for Memorial Day, we'll have some hit and miss showers and storms as well. So it's very quiet for the next few days with temperatures warming up. We're in the low nineties by Thursday and then temperatures back off a little bit over the weekend. But again, that does come with the potential for some scattered showers and storms.

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