ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2009
Imported fenproporex-based diet pills from Brazil: a report of two cases.
Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
- Safety and efficacy of fenproporex for obesity treatment: a systematic review.Revista de saude publica · 2016Pooled it
- Undeclared Doping Substances are Highly Prevalent in Commercial Sports Nutrition Supplements.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2021Article
- Detection and determination of undeclared synthetic caffeine in weight loss formulations using HPLC-DAD and UHPLC-MS/MS.Journal of pharmaceutical analysis · 2018Article
- Ion Channels in Obesity: Pathophysiology and Potential Therapeutic Targets.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2016Review
- Effects of chronic administration of fenproporex on cognitive and non-cognitive behaviors.Metabolic brain disease · 2015Article
- Fenproporex increases locomotor activity and alters energy metabolism, and mood stabilizers reverse these changes: a proposal for a new animal model of mania.Molecular neurobiology · 2014Article
- Effects of acute and chronic administration of fenproporex on DNA damage parameters in young and adult rats.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2013Article
- The return of rainbow diet pills.American journal of public health · 2012Article
- Use of a pharmaceutically adulterated dietary supplement, Pai You Guo, among Brazilian-born women in the United States.Journal of general internal medicine · 2012Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Banned amphetamine-based anorectics are illicitly imported into the United States (US), but little is known regarding the harm these diet pills pose to US residents. A 26-year-old woman using imported diet pills presented with a two-year history of intermittent chest pains, palpitations, headaches and insomnia. Urine toxicology screen detected amphetamines and benzodiazepines. Fenproporex and chlordiazepoxide were detected in her pills. Her symptoms resolved after she stopped using diet pills. A 38-year-old man using imported diet pills presented after his occupational urine screen was significantly positive for amphetamine. Fenproporex and fluoxetine were detected in his pills. These cases illustrate the potential harm from imported prescription diet pills that combine fenproporex with benzodiazepines, antidepressants, diuretics, laxatives and other substances. Increasing physicians' awareness of imported diet pill use may improve care of patients suffering from the pills' many adverse effects.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.