Accomplia: The anti-smoking, weight loss drug

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Accomplia Update: As much as I would like to help everyone looking to buy Accomplia, it is not yet available for purchase. Please don't send me any emails requesting purchasing info because, basically, I just don't have it. Thanks!

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Great, another weight loss drug. At least this one helps you stop smoking too. Of course, there are much safer ways to lose weight and cut your nicotine addiction...

From MSNBC Diet & Fitness:

An experimental diet drug Accomplia -- already shown to aid in quitting smoking -- helped people lose much more weight than a placebo in an eagerly anticipated two-year trial, researchers said.

The pivotal late-stage study presented at the American Heart Association annual scientific meeting showed patients who took the anti-obesity drug Acomplia, or rimonabant, shed pounds and abdominal fat after one year and kept it off after two years.

Abdominal fat is considered an important potential indicator of cardiovascular risk. Patients taking the Sanofi-Aventis drug over two years significantly improved their levels of HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, lowered triglycerides and had better insulin sensitivity, researchers said.

Results of the study greatly enhanced the French drugmaker’s chances of winning regulatory approval, analysts say. If approved, sales of the drug are projected to reach $6 billion a year.

Researchers studied 3,040 obese subjects for two years. Nearly 33 percent of the people at the highest doses lost 3.1 inches on their waist line--or 10 percent of their initial body weight, compared with 16.4 percent of patients on a placebo. More than two-thirds of the subjects lost more than 5 per cent of their body weight.

Across all measures, Acomplia at a high dose was more effective than the lower dose and significantly better than placebo.

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