Obesity and cardiovascular disease.
Obesity and cardiovascular disease.
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DOI:
10.1161/circulationaha.111.022541
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发表时间:
2012-03-06
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
Gokce N
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作者:
Apovian CM;Gokce N
1178 ary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Standard diets and exercise strategies have had limited efficacy because of low rates of long-term success in sustaining weight losses of 5% to 10% of initial body weight beyond 6 months. The use of appetite suppressants, which typically work on the hypothalamus, to decrease food intake can potentiate weight loss as long as treatment is sustained; however, weight is quickly regained on cessation of the agent. These drugs are also fraught with side effects such as blood pressure and pulse elevations, anxiety, and insomnia and thus can be extremely difficult to use, especially in patients with cardiovascular disease or risk factors. With a high BMI (class V obesity) and comorbidities such as hypertension, sleep apnea, and type 2 diabetes mellitus, the patient in this Clinician Update is certainly at increased cardiovascular risk. One of his prescribed medications, phentermine, acts primarily as a norepinephrinereleasing agent and centrally suppresses appetite in the hypothalamus. Because of its amphetamine-like actions, it also exerts peripheral effects of pulse and blood pressure elevation. In a patient with this degree of obesity, it is likely that the combination of sleep apnea, possibly right-sided heart overload, and phentermine effects triggered atrial fibrillation. The medical and surgical treatments for obesity have a core of behavioral approaches in common: diet and exercise modification. These modalities need to be included concomitantly with medical or surgical options, likely lifelong, for successful outcomes. This patient was unable to tolerate one of the pharmacotherapeutic options for obesity treatment because of its common sympathomimetic cardiovascular side effects. Unfortunately, many of the medications for obesity have undergone intense scrutiny because of potential cardiovascular and other side effects and have come up short when evaluated for health risk versus benefit. Phentermine was approved for weight loss by the Food andDrug Administration (FDA) in 1959 for short-term (12 weeks) treatment of obesity; long-term studies are unavailable. 7 It was combined with fenfluramine in a popular combination termed “phen-fen” until concerns about valvulopathy prompted the FDA to withdraw fenfluramine from the market in 1997. Another agent for obesity, sibutramine, approved in 1997 for long-term use, was withdrawn from the market recently after a study of subjects with preexisting cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or both showed increased risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke with treatment for a mean duration of 3.4 years. 8