the bbc�*s sean farrington spoke to the company's boss and started by asking him how much of an impactve on the world. obesity is known, and has been shown in surgical intervention studies, but also in lifestyle intervention, when you can mitigate obesity in adulthood, you can mitigate downstream disease at some scale. there are estimates that 40% of healthca re costs, and maybe a little more that of chronic disease for adults is connected directly to overweight and obesity. of course, cardiovascular disease and diabetes are the largest categories of those things, but there are many, many other untoward conditions that can be impacted by obesity. we know that if people can lose weight by diet and exercise, which is the first line of care, and we have long—term studies on surgical intervention, and now short—term interventions like medicines that lilly makes, we can impact the diseases that are downstream of overweight and obesity. if these medicines work like diet and exercise, or medical interventions, we have an chance to address 40% of adult disease, which is pretty significant impa

my colleague sean farrington spoke to its boss and started by asking him how much of an impact thesevention studies, but also and lifestyle intervention, when you can mitigate obesity in adulthood, you can mitigate downstream disease and some scale and estimates that 40% of healthcare costs and maybe a little more than that of chronic disease for adults is connected directly to overweight and obesity. of course, heart disease and diabetes, but many others and conditions can be impacted by obesity, and we know that if people can lose weight with diet and exercise, which is always the first line of care and long—term studies in surgical interventions and shorter—term studies, like medicines lily makes, that we can reduce the diseases that are actually downstream of overweight and obesity. if that plays out in medicine by diet and exercise doesn't surgical interventions, we could have a chance to address 40 or 50% of the diseases, which is a pretty significant impact on the world. when you say first line of care is diet and exercise, what are the concerns that this could overtake that c