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Article: Large study exonerates diet pill Redux as cause of heart valve damage
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- April 1, 1998
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DANIEL Q. HANEY AP Medical Editor
AP Online
04-01-1998
ATLANTA (AP) _ A large study released Tuesday found no sign that brief use of the diet pill Redux caused dangerously leaky heart valves, as many feared when the medicine was withdrawn from the market last September.
The study, conducted at Georgetown University, appears to largely exonerate Redux, a prescription appetite suppressant. It found the medicine is no more likely than sugar pills to seriously harm the heart during the two or three months that most people took it.
However, it did not rule out the possibility that taking Redux for many months - as the drug was intended to be used - could have harmed people. It also did ...