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Does Ozempic Wegovy Blindness Affect your Eyesight? Here The Risks!

Does Ozempic Wegovy Blindness Affect your Eyesight? Here The Risks!

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Among those prescribed semaglutide for overweight or obesity, the rate of the eye condition was 6.7%, versus 0.8% for those receiving other types of medications for weight reduction.


The 36-month observational study involved 710 adults with type 2 diabetes and 979 taking medications for weight loss.
NAION develops from insufficient blood flow to the optic nerve and causes sudden painless vision loss in one eye. It is the second most common cause of blindness due to optic nerve damage, after glaucoma.

After taking patients’ other risk factors for the condition into account, such as high blood pressure and obstructive sleep apnea, use of semaglutide was associated with a more than four times higher risk of NAION in those receiving it for diabetes and a more than seven times higher risk in patients taking it for obesity.

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Novo Nordisk in an emailed statement noted several limitations of the study design, which was not a randomized controlled trial.
"Overall, the data published in the study is not sufficient to establish a causal association between GLP-1 receptor agonist use and NAION," the Danish drugmaker said, adding that the condition "is not an adverse drug reaction for the marketed formulations of semaglutide."

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