Prescription Weight Loss Medication Contrave
Research shows that some people taking prescription weight loss medications lose 10 percent or more of their starting weight.
Prescription weight loss medication contrave. In canada three prescription medications are available for the treatment of overweight and obesity. Video transcript national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases. Contrave is a weight loss drug aimed at treating those who classify as overweight or obese.
This material is provided for educational purposes only and is not intended for medical advice diagnosis or treatment. Data sources include ibm watson micromedex updated 2 nov 2020 cerner multum updated 2 nov 2020 ashp updated 23 oct 2020. The combination of weight loss medication and lifestyle changes results in greater weight loss than lifestyle changes do alone.
If you are interested in a weight loss drug contrave will help you lose weight in a healthy and helpful manner. Called contrave the new drug is the third prescription weight loss drug to be approved by the fda since 2012. Prescription weight loss drugs approved for long term use more than 12 weeks produce significant weight loss compared with placebo.
Weight loss of 5 to 10 percent of your starting body weight may help improve your health by lowering blood sugar blood pressure and triglycerides. Contrave naltrexone and bupropion contrave combines low doses of naltrexone a medication commonly used to manage alcohol and opioid dependency and bupropion an atypical antidepressant that s also prescribed for smoking cessation. In three clinical trials.
Prescription medications for the treatment of obesity. For some people prescription weight loss drugs may help. Contrave is a prescription weight loss medicine that may help some adults with a body mass index bmi of 30 kg m 2 or greater obese or adults with a bmi of 27 kg m 2 or greater overweight with at least one weight related medical problem such as high blood pressure high cholesterol or type 2 diabetes lose weight and keep the weight off.
It s also approved for those not obese but overweight with risk factors such as high. 1 results vary by medication and by person.