By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD
Oct. 22, 2008 -- An experimental diet drug may prove to be twice as effective as currently available weight loss medications if results from an early study are confirmed.
Researchers did not compare the drug tesofensine head-to-head with currently approved weight loss medications. But researcher Arne Astrup, MD, of the University of Copenhagen tells WebMD that the weight loss in the study was roughly double that reported in trials of these drugs.
Danish biopharmaceutical company Neurosearch A/S, which hopes to market tesofensine as a weight loss drug, paid for the study.
"Normally the drugs now on the market give you at best a weight loss of 5 kilograms (11 pounds) with diet and exercise," Astrup says. "In this study we doubled that weight loss."
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