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Are there any medications that can help in losing weight? – Dr. Anantharaman Ramakrishnan

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Definitely there are medications available that are effective for weight loss. In India we have 2 available agents, one is Orlistat, which acts by preventing the absorption of fat from your diet is a pancreatic lipase inhibitor. The other drug is called as Liraglutide, which is an injectable agent used for diabetes. Both these drugs are US-FDA approved and their effective for the treatment of obesity per se. In Indian patients the cut off for treating obesity patients is somewhere 28 kg per meter square and it is slightly lower than the cut off point for other ethnicities. So there are good weight loss options available and these tend to be safe and effective because the leading regulatory bodies in the world have given approval for these treatments after looking into the risks and the benefits as well.

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