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Why don't I qualify for treatment with weight-loss medication?

Medical criteria for why someone doesn't (yet) qualify for weight-loss medication.

Our doctors assess requests against a number of medical criteria. Someone doesn't (currently) qualify if one of the following points applies:

  • 76 years or older

  • BMI below 25 (and never used weight-loss medication before)

  • BMI between 25 and 27, without increased health risk based on ethnicity (and never used weight-loss medication before)

  • Pregnant

  • Breastfeeding

  • BMI below 30, without an underlying condition that qualifies for this

  • Uses insulin

  • Uses a sulfonylurea derivative

  • Previously had pancreatitis

Has the situation changed, or does none of these points (still) apply? Then the questionnaire can be filled in again.

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