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Data provided in this study can be used to estimate the relative contribution of exposure to fenfluramines to overall incidence of echocardiographically defined, FDA-positive AR and MR. Given that approximately 2.5% of the population of the United States had used anorexic prescription drugs (mostly fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine) between 1996 and 1998 [ 30 ] , approximately 32% and 11% of all FDA-positive AR and MR respectively could be attributed to fenfluramine or dexfenfluramine use.
Doctors reported that fenfluramine and phentermine, a popular diet pill combination, may cause severe heart-valve disease . The story is all over front pages and the TV news because the pills are prescribed about 20 million times a year.
We first evaluated studies reporting echocardiographic prevalence of FDA-positive valvulopathy (mild or greater AR and moderate or greater MR) [ 2 ] among subjects who had taken either fenfluramine or dexfenfluramine (alone or in combination with phentermine) and in matched controls [ 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ] . In most of these studies, echocardiograms were performed after the drugs had been discontinued and were read without knowledge of prior drug exposure by multiple readers (table 1).
At the FDA's request, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories withdrew fenfluramine, half of the wildly popular "fen-phen," and also dexfenfluramine, which is marketed as "Redux."
In 1995, a combination of two drugs, fenfluramine and phentermine--fen-phen--was shown to suppress appetite enough to help the severely obese lose an average of 24 pounds after two years.
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