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Article: New antiobesity agents promote weight loss in type 2 diabetic patients.

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March 17, 2003
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2003 MAR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New antiobesity agents, sibutramine and orlistat, promote weight loss in obese patients with type 2 diabetes.

"Besides genetic predisposition, obesity is the most important risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Even modest weight reduction can improve blood glucose control in overweight subjects. After failure of lifestyle modifications, antiobesity drugs such as orlistat, a potent and selective inhibitor of gastric and pancreatic lipases that reduces lipid intestinal absorption, or sibutramine, a noradrenaline and 5-hydroxytryptamine reuptake inhibitor that regulates food intake, may be ...

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