Abstract

PEREIRA DESPAIGNE, Olga Lidia  and  PALAY DESPAIGNE, Maricela Silvia. Effectiveness of the metformine in patients with exogenous obesity. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.2, pp. 215-222. ISSN 1029-3019.

A therapeutic intervention was carried out in 12 patients with exogenous obesity, assisted in the Endocrinology Department from "Saturnino Lora Torres" Teaching Clinical Surgical Provincial Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from July, 2013 to the same month of 2014, who were randomly selected and then assigned into 2 groups of identical quantity of members: a control group which had the diet as the only therapy, and that of study which received diet and metformine as treatment; in order to determine the effectiveness of this drug in the weight loss. The information was analyzed and processed through the hypothesis tests of Mann Whitney and of means comparison, with an error of 5%, and it was obtained that this drug was more effective combined with the diet that the dietary monotherapy as the only treatment

Keywords : exogenous obesity; metformine; diet; Endocrinology department; secondary health care.

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