Diet & Nutrition

Research confirms that experimental diet pill can keep the pounds off

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 28th, 2005

A second study confirms that an experimental diet pill can help people lose weight and keep it off for up to 2 years, setting the stage for its maker to seek approval to sell it in the United States.

The drug, rimonabant, which the French company sanofi-aventis SA hopes to sell under the brand name Acomplia, trimmed nearly 16 pounds on average from people taking the optimal dose for 2 years, compared with 5.5 pounds for those who took dummy pills, doctors reported March 8, 2005, at a cardiology conference.

"The majority of the weight that was lost at 1 year is still maintained after 2 years. There is only a slight increase over that second year,"...

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2005-03-28)

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