SIBUTRAMINE: THE MAGIC PILL TO LOSE WEIGHT AND INCREASE CARDIOVASCULAR RISKS

Herbal Weight Loss Pill Overdose: Sibutramine Hidden in Pepper Pill

Supposedly herbal weight loss pills are sold online and are widely used in the world. Some of these products are found to contain sibutramine by FDA and their sale is prohibited. We report a case of a female patient who presented to the emergency department after taking slimming pills. 17-year-old female patient presented to the emergency room with palpitations, dizziness, anxiety, and insomnia...

The Myth of the Magic Pill

Sibutramine on Cardiovascular Outcome

S ibutramine, a combined norepinephrine and serotonin reuptake inhibitor, is effective in the management of obese patients requiring pharmacotherapy as part of a multimodal approach to weight loss. It improves insulin resistance markers, glucose metabolism, and atherogenic dyslipidemia in both diabetic and nondiabetic patients, most of these effects resulting fromweight loss. However, sibutrami...

Pill organizers and pill cutters: risks and limitations.

In this essay, based on documental analysis, the limitations associated with the use of pill organizers and cutters are discussed and analyzed as a matter of public health. The use of the organizers for storing and carrying tablets and capsules exposes these medications to environmental factors from which their original packaging protected them, compromising their stability and safeness. Cutter...

Cost-effectiveness of sibutramine in the LOSE Weight Study: evaluating the role of pharmacologic weight-loss therapy within a weight management program.

UNLABELLED the cost-effectiveness of drug therapy when used in conjunction with a weight management program (WMP) for treatment of obesity. The objective was to compare the cost-effectiveness of sibutramine (Meridia) plus a structured WMP versus only a structured WMP in both overweight and obese individuals. The core WMP was a physician-supervised, multidisciplinary program for which each enrol...