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  • 标题:Obesity management: Update on orlistat
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  • 作者:Belinda S Drew ; Andrew F Dixon ; John B Dixon
  • 期刊名称:Vascular Health and Risk Management
  • 印刷版ISSN:1176-6344
  • 电子版ISSN:1178-2048
  • 出版年度:2007
  • 卷号:3
  • 期号:6
  • 页码:817-821
  • 出版社:Dove Medical Press Ltd
  • 摘要:Over the past 20 years obesity has become a worldwide concern of frightening proportion. The World Health Organization estimates that there are over 400 million obese and over 1.6 billion overweight adults, a figure which is projected to almost double by 2015. This is not a disease restricted to adults – at least 20 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight in 2005 (WHO 2006). Overweight and obesity lead to serious health consequences including coronary artery disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes, heart failure, dyslipidemia, hypertension, reproductive and gastrointestinal cancers, gallstones, fatty liver disease, osteoarthritis and sleep apnea (Padwal et al 2003). Modest weight loss in the obese of between 5% and 10% of bodyweight is associated with improvements in cardiovascular risk profiles and reduced incidence of type 2 diabetes (Goldstein 1992; Avenell et al 2004; Padwal and Majumdar 2007). Orlistat, a gastric and pancreatic lipase inhibitor that reduces dietary fat absorption by approximately 30%, has been approved for use for around ten years (Zhi et al 1994; Hauptman 2000). There is now a growing body of evidence to suggest that Orlistat assists weight loss and that it may also have additional benefits. The aim of this review is to provide a brief update on the current literature studying the efficacy, safety and significance of the use of Orlistat in clinical practice.
  • 关键词:obese; weight; diet; orlistat; hypertension; cholesterol
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