For retired library assistant Pat Guntrip, the blockbuster weight-loss jab Ozempic has been truly life-changing. She’d tried multiple medications to control her type 2 diabetes, without success.

But she’s now lost more than two stone (13kg), and her blood sugar levels are within the ‘healthy’ range — thanks to Ozempic.

‘It really has been a wonder drug,’ says Pat, 77, who lives in Scunthorpe, north Lincolnshire.

After being first prescribed the drug by her GP five years ago, she now eats ‘half the amount I used to because I just don’t feel as hungry’.

As a result, it’s almost certain that Ozempic has significantly reduced the grandmother-of-four’s risk of potentially life-threatening complications, such as a heart attack or stroke —…