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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Weight Loss with Dexfenfluramine
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.172201.11651@spdcc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:22:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov17.172201.11651
- References: <hank.721700152@well.sf.ca.us> <1992Nov16.143557.10638@ms.uky.edu> <hank.721968604@well.sf.ca.us>
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- In article <hank.721968604@well.sf.ca.us> hank@well.sf.ca.us (Hank Roberts) writes:
- >"The above data" certainly do not prove IN ANY WAY anything. If you
- >will refer to the paper -- and note that one of the stated main goals
- >of the four-year program was to investigate what happens to lipids during
- >weight changes -- you will see that some lipids did (and others did not)
- >vary along with weight. I regret that I can't post the charts here for you.
-
- No one is arguing with that. They're arguing that lipid changes could
- be used to determine whether or not an increase in caloric intake over
- the study occurred or not, thereby explaining the weight regain. This
- was Chuck's assertion.
-
- >The lipid studies were of major interest to the writers, and deserve to
- >be read in the original; they are interesting and suggestive of further
- >possible investigation, at least.
-
- Well, I did read the study when it first came out (the paper is somewhere
- here, but not without a lot of rummaging) and it essentially says something
- pretty unsurprising, namely, that triglycerides and LDL go down when you
- lose weight. I'll make an effort to find it and read it again.
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
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