ADAGIO-Lipids Gives Promises but Faces the Setbacks
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ADAGIO-Lipids gives promises but faces the setbacks.
The rapidly increasing global wave of obesity associated with cardiometabolic risk factors portends a daunting increase of cardiovascular disease. Consequently, the search for effective and safe drugs and new therapeutic avenues to fight obesity stands at the frontline because of a market with enormous opportunities. Rimonabant is a selective CB1 endocannabinoid receptor antagonist that was the...
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BACKGROUND Rimonabant, the first selective cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) receptor antagonist, improves cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight/obese patients. ADAGIO-Lipids assessed the effect of rimonabant on cardiometabolic risk factors and intraabdominal and liver fat. METHODS AND RESULTS 803 abdominally obese patients with atherogenic dyslipidemia (increased triglycerides [TG] or reduced hi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1079-5642,1524-4636
DOI: 10.1161/atvbaha.108.183178