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Thursday, August 29, 2002Of the 3,304 at-risk patients who participated in the study, all of whom made healthy lifestyle changes, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes was 37% lower in those treated with Xenical. After four years of treatment, 26% of those who took Xenical managed to lose and keep off 10% of their body weight, while only 16% of the patients not taking the drug did. In that time, 6.2% of the participants who were taking Xenical went on to develop diabetes. Of the group that took placebos, 9% did. That’s not much of a difference. For every one hundred people who take the drug, ten lose more weight than those who don’t take it. There’s no mention of where the original study can be found, so I suspect that the 37% lower incidence of diabetes in the drug takers isn’t as impressive on close inspection as it sounds, either. posted by Sydney on 8/29/2002 07:23:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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