Researchers have revealed through new study that that a combination of two anti-addition drugs could be used to effectively treat the obese people to shed their extra weight. In a trail a group of obese people has lost six percent of their body weight over the period of one year after taking the drug.
The team of researchers from US conscripted two thousand sufferers aged between eighteen to sixty-five years for the trail of fifty-six weeks. All the participants were arbitrarily given a combination of dugs bupropion and naltrexone or dummy pills. Bupropion is known as anti smoking drug while naltrexone is used usually for treating addicts of alcohol and heroin.
These both drugs affect by reducing the appetite and cravings for food. Participants were also advised to change their lifestyle that included increasing the levels of exercise and cutting down the intake of calories. At the beginning of study all the participants were clinically proved obese.
The results of the trail showed that those taking anti-addiction drugs lost six percent of their body weight while those taking dummy pill lost 1.3 percent. Researchers found that naltrexone was the most effective in shedding extra weight and its higher dose lost more than ten percent of their body weight who took that.
Although lifestyle change is the first line remedy for obesity, observance to this intercession is deprived. The mixture of naltrexone plus bupropion could be a useful addition to the present array of medications that make easy observance to lifestyle change. It could generate clinically momentous weight loss for treatment of obesity and obesity-related disorders, reported Professor Frank Greenway from Louisiana State University to The Lancet medical journal.
The major side effect seen was nausea that affected more than a quarter of sufferers in both naltrexone dosage groups.