Weight loss (prominent)

Class at a glance

• Prominent medication-associated weight loss

Practical pearls

• Can be therapeutic or unwanted

Other practical pearls

• May reflect appetite suppression or metabolic effects

Safety / monitoring

• Monitor nutrition/body weight when clinically relevant

Self-check

• What should be monitored with clinically relevant drug-related weight loss?
  Nutrition/body weight.
• Is medication-associated weight loss always desirable?
  No; it can be therapeutic or unwanted.

Drugs in this class (16)

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