Weight-loss Medication Shows Modest Benefit Also Improving HDL And Triglyceride Levels

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F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, M.D., of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and colleagues evaluate the efficacy and asylum of the weight-loss medication rimonabant in conjunction beside diet and develop in promote easing in item weight and waist circumference, long-term weight look after, and reduction of cardiometabolic risk factors in obese and high risk overweight patients. The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled shed, conduct from August 2001 to April 2004, incorporated 3,045 adults who be obese (body mass index 30 or greater) or overweight (body mass index greater than 27 and treat or crude hypertension [high blood pressure] or dyslipidemia [abnormal levels of certain lipids and lipoproteins in the blood]). Patients were randomized to receive placebo, 5 mg/d of rimonabant, or 20 mg/d of rimonabant for 1 year. Rimonabant-treated patients were re-randomized to receive placebo or constant to receive practically the same by means of rimonabant dose while the placebo crush continued to receive placebo during year 2.

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