In a large two - year study, among people who lost at least 5 % of their body weight in their first year on Belviq, 68 % of those who stayed on
the drug maintained their weight loss in the second year, compared with only 50 % of people who stopped the drug after a year.»
Not exact matches
This made leptin a good
drug for
maintaining weight loss but not a great candidate for getting the pounds off up front.
The SNRK - lacking mice
maintained their extra
weight even when treated with a
drug known to induce
weight loss in rodents by activating brown fat.
But unlike those
drugs, it targets just one specific type of receptor, which appears to
maintain the
weight -
loss benefit while avoiding heart - valve problems.
When we say «
weight maintenance» over «
weight loss,» it is to emphasize the fact that these
drugs help us to lose
weight (along with a reduced - calorie diet and increased activity) and
maintain the
weight lost.