Diabetes medication may help decrease BMI in obese adolescents

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 02:49 in Health & Medicine

a medication used to treat type 2 diabetes -appears to cause a small but significant decrease in body mass index (BMI) in non-diabetic obese adolescents when combined with a lifestyle intervention program, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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