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Article: Diabetes Drug May Boost Weight Loss in Obese Patients; Combo of diet, exercise and injections helped non-diabetics shed pounds, study finds.(Report)
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- Consumer Health News (English)
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- October 23, 2009
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FRIDAY, Oct. 23 (HealthDay News) -- The diabetes drug liraglutide helps obese people without diabetes lose weight, researchers have found.
The study authors also reported that high doses of liraglutide were more effective at helping people shed pounds than the weight-loss drug orlistat.
In the study, which included 564 diabetes-free obese patients aged 18 to 65 at 19 sites in Europe, participants were randomly selected to receive one of four injected doses of liraglutide (1.2 milligrams, 1.8 milligrams, 2.4 milligrams or 3 milligrams) or a placebo once a day, or 120 milligrams of orlistat three times a day.
All of the patients also increased ...