The weight-loss drug semaglutide, also known as Wegovy, can prevent heart attacks – will this widen use?

Wegovy, the weight-loss injection made up of the drug semaglutide, can significantly cut people’s chance of having a heart attack or stroke, a trial has found.

This might seem like just the latest in a long line of positive studies for the medicine, but doctors who work in the field say this is a key result. In time, it could become as normalised to have weight-loss injections for your health as it is to take cholesterol-lowering statins.

Semaglutide is …