Maybe. I'm not convinced. There is some correlation between obesity and sleep apnea, but skinny people can develop sleep apnea just as easily as fat people. It is very difficult to lose weight (and very easy to gain weight) once you do develop sleep apnea for a variety of reasons, so the causal relationship might even be reversed.
That being said, if you suffer from OSA and have a lot of fat on your chest and around your airway, losing some of that fat might help. Maybe GLP-1 drugs can do that in spite of OSA.
That being said, if you suffer from OSA and have a lot of fat on your chest and around your airway, losing some of that fat might help. Maybe GLP-1 drugs can do that in spite of OSA.