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Heart Valve Abnormalities 1 Year after Patients Stopped Taking the Weight-Loss Drug Dexfenfluramine
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What is the problem and what is known about it so far?
Dexfenfluramine and fenfluramine are drugs that limit hunger. These drugs were often combined with another drug called phentermine, a combination known as “fen-phen.” In 1997, researchers reported that some patients who had taken fen-phen for weight loss …
