The Effect of Leptin A-200, Caffeine/Ephedrine and Their Combination Upon Weight Loss and Body Composition in Man

Completed 45 enrolled Pennington Biomedical Research Center Amgen · collab

RandomizedParallel-groupDouble-blindPrevention

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare three treatments to see which causes the most weight loss, fat loss, loss of stomach fat and improvement in blood tests like cholesterol.

Timeline

Start: 2001-02
Primary completion: 2002-02
Completion: 2002-02

Publications

Liu AG, Smith SR, Fujioka K, Greenway FL. The effect of leptin, caffeine/ephedrine, and their combination upon visceral fat mass and weight loss. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 Oct;21(10):1991-6. doi: 10.1002/oby.20416. Epub 2013 Jun 11.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Caffeine	Small molecule	200 mg	Oral
Subject	Ephedrine	Small molecule	25 mg	Oral
Subject	Leptin A-200	Protein / enzyme biologic	20 mg	Subcutaneous

The Effect of Leptin A-200, Caffeine/Ephedrine and Their Combination Upon Weight Loss and Body Composition in Man

Summary

Timeline

Publications

Drugs

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