Effects of Sibutramine

Studies accept apparent that sibutramine helps humans lose weight. Afterwards six months of demography it while dieting, humans absent up to 18 pounds, compared to just 2.9 pounds for humans who were alone dieting. Higher doses produced the greatest weight losses. Similar after-effects were apparent in a one-year study.

Clinical studies accept aswell apparent that sibutramine can advice humans who accept already absent weight to accumulate the weight off. In one study, up to 43 percent of humans demography the biologic (plus dieting) were able to accumulate off at atomic 80 percent of their antecedent weight accident afterwards two years, compared to alone 3 percent of the humans who were alone dieting.

Studies accept aswell apparent that demography sibutramine (plus dieting) produced benign changes in cholesterol levels (most acceptable as a aftereffect of the weight loss). Total cholesterol, "bad" cholesterol (LDL), and triglyceride levels dropped, while "good" cholesterol (HDL) levels increased.