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Cardiovascular Responses to Weight Management and Sibutramine in High-Risk Subjects: An Analysis Fro
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Title Cardiovascular Responses to Weight Management and Sibutramine in High-Risk Subjects: An Analysis Fro
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/567442?src=rss
Description Six-week treatment with sibutramine appears to be efficacious, tolerable and safe in high-risk patients with CVD -- a population for whom sibutramine is usually contraindicated.
European Heart Journal
Category Articles > Cardiology
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Date Jan 6, 2008
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