Filed in archive Weight by Gloria Gamat on December 15, 2008

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Vivus Inc. - the maker of the obesity drug Qnexa - has reported that obese patients treated with the highest dose of its experimental drug Qnexa on average lost 9.2 percent of their weight.

Such were the findings from the first of three late-stage trials involving Qnexa - a mixture of phentermine (half of the recalled fen-phen diet pill) and the epilepsy drug Topamax (topiramate).

Vivus said the 28-week, 756-patient study met its main goal of superior weight loss with two different doses of Qnexa, compared with the drug's individual components and a placebo pill. Patients in the placebo group on average lost 1.7 percent of their weight, while patients on "mid-dose" Qnexa lost 8.5 percent.

Hmmm...I don't 9.2 percent is a big loss of weight to consider the pill as working. What do you think?

Read the full report here and here.

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Rating: 9.67 out of 3 vote(s) cast.

Response from: Ajlouny (12/25/08 3:33am)

How do they know that there is no severe side effects to this drug that is not similar to Fen-Fen. Don't want to regret taking a diet pill.

Response from: Jessica (10/26/09 11:54am)

You don't know what you're talking about. Losing almost 10% of your weight is HUGE. especially if it's JUST from the drug itself. Other drugs that advertise that they do more than 10% body weight are either unhealthy or phony.