Weight-loss drug found to shrink heart muscle in mice, human cells

A U of A team that set out to study why a side-effect of drugs like Ozempic is the loss of skeletal muscle found that other types of muscle, such as cardiac muscle, are also decreased in response to Ozempic — leading them to conclude that if Ozempic also causes a decrease in cardiac mass in humans, it could be detrimental in the long term.