By Rishika Sadam and Abhirami G

BENGALURU, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Indian health-tech startup Healthify is in talks to partner with more weight-loss drugmakers to offer health, nutrition and lifestyle coaching, after signing a deal with Novo Nordisk’s India unit, its chief executive said.

The deal marks Healthify’s first such partnership with a drugmaker, and it hopes similar agreements will boost its paid subscriber base.

Healthify, which provides health metric tracking along with nutrition and fitness advice, launched a patient-support programme this week through which it offers coaching services to users prescribed Novo’s weight-loss therapies.

“Our vision is to be the world’s biggest patient support provider for all GLP (GLP-1 receptor agonists are a class of weight-loss drugs) companies

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