Adult diabetes drug may work in very obese youths

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Adult diabetes drug may work in very obese youths

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A drug originally approved to treat adults with diabetes may also help severely obese youths lose some weight, according to a new study. "We're encouraged by these trial results because there is potentially a role for this class (of drugs) to be useful in terms of weight reduction and cardiovascular risk control," said Aaron Kelly, the study's lead author from the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis. Exenatide, which is marketed by Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. as Byetta, was approved by the U.S. ...

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