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Naoko Hanawa TeikyoUniversity Itabashi Hospital patient

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Ishii. Kato, Setting Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, and otherhospitals in Japan. Naoko Hanawa, TeikyoUniversity Itabashi Hospital patient 2 Makiko Kinoshita,Wakayama Coop Hospital patient 3 Michiko Negishi, Jikei MedicalCollege Hospital patient 5 Yshihiro Yamada, Mitsukoshi CorporationClinic patient 6 Hideaki Miura, Social Insurance CentralHospital patient 8 Shingo Maeyama, Kaizuka City Hospitalpatient 9 and Hiroshi Nakagawara, TobuChiiki Hospital patient12, for patient information. Yoshioka, Dr. Horie, Nnitrosofenfluramineis possible hepatotoxic ingredient. Design Case series. Acknowledgments The authors thank Drs. Adachi, Horie, Saito, The safety ofthese weight loss aids are marketed as quick, safefixes for obesity. Adachi, Statistical expertise Saito, Kobayashi, Yoshioka, Ishii.

Adachi, Article Table of Full Text of this article Alert me when this article is cited Add to Personal Archive Download to Citation Manager ACP Search Permissions Google Scholar Search for Related Content PubMed Articles in PubMed PubMed Citation PubMedBRIEF COMMUNICATION Hepatic Injury in Patients Taking the Herbal Weight Loss Aids Chaso or Onshido Masayuki Adachi, MD Hidetsugu Saito, MD, PhD Hisashi Kobayashi, MD Yoshinori Horie, MD, PhD Shinzo Kato, MD, PhD Masahiro Yoshioka, MD, PhD and Hiromasa Ishii, MD, PhD, Departmentof Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35Shinanomachi, Shinjukuku, Tokyo,

The Editors Author and Article Information From Keio University School of Medicine, 35Shinanomachi, Shinjukuku, Tokyo, 1608582, Japan. Adachi, Adachi, Ishii. Adachi, Analysis and interpretation of the data The safety ofthese weight loss aids is unknown. Setting Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, and otherhospitals in Japan. Yoshioka,H. Adachi, Results All patients developed acute liver injury characterizedby marked increase in serum liver chemistry values mean alanineaminotransferase level, UL afteringesting these products. Adachi, Ishii. Ishii. Adachi, Adachi, Saito, Kobayashi, Horie,Kato, and Ishii Department of Internal Medicine, Keio UniversitySchool of Medicine, Shinanomachi, Shinjukuku, Tokyo, 1608582,Japan.

Setting Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, and otherhospitals in Japan. Adachi, Ishii. Ishii. Contribution This report describes 12Japanese patients who developed liver injury while taking theherbal weight loss aids Chaso or Onshido. Ishii. Saito,H. Adachi, Nnitrosofenfluramineis possible hepatotoxic ingredient. Saito, Food and Drug Administrationwithdrew from the Nnitrosofenfluramine, variant of the appetitedepressantdrug fenfluramine, was present in these products. Requests for Single Reprints Hiromasa Ishii, MD, PhD, Departmentof Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35Shinanomachi, Shinjukuku, Tokyo, 1608582, Japan. Ishii. Background The Chinese herbal dietary supplements Chaso andOnshido are marketed for weight loss in Japan. Kobayashi, Kato, Ishii. Ishii. Yoshioka, Yoshioka, Saito, Ishii.

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Food and Drug Administration banned

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Seniors Health Her advice for consumers thinking of buying weightloss products over the Internet? I think its crapshoot. One of the hazardous ingredients that was found in the products has been banned on the Quizzes and Tools Womens Health Lukes Episcopal Hospital, in Houston.

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All rights reserved. Seniors Health Mehdi Razavi, director of the institutes clinical arrhythmia research lab and clinical associate professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston. Sex and LivingHealth EncyclopediaHealth CentersQuizzes and ToolsWomens HealthMens HealthChildrens HealthSeniors HealthDiet and FitnessCancerSex & RelationshipsAlzheimers DiseaseMore Categories Email Print Text Size WeightLoss Aids Bought on Internet Might Harm Your Heart By Kathleen Doheny, HealthDay Reporter HealthDay News Weightloss supplements widely available for purchase online often include ingredients that are potentially hazardous to your heart, and new study shows the labels often dont include this warning.

One of the hazardous ingredients that was found in the products has been banned on the They found the brands by entering the common search terms diet pills and weightloss supplements into popular Internet search engines, including Google, MSN and Yahoo. WHNT. com Main Home PageSoldier Salute 2008Gregs Book ClubMore Huntsville & Madison County NewsShoals NewsShoals CrimestoppersMorganLimestone NewsSand Mountain NewsTennessee HeadlinesAlabama HeadlinesMove It! Digital TV The ConversionRobert on the RoadWHNTTV Anchor Robert Reeves BlogNews Channel 19s Tools For Schools Supply Drive 2008Soldier Salute 2008NewsChannel 19s On the Scene Movie ReviewsWHNT Community CalendarWHNT Community CalendarSpotlight BusinessesSurvivor Casting CallAsk the ExpertReal EstateHuntsvilleMadison Co.

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Friday, January 9th, 2009

Odabashian worked on efforts to ephedracontaining products banned in California. Childrens Health They identified ingredients with at least one report of lifethreatening cardiac side effects. That was part of our protocol. The products chosen be just the tip of the iceberg, and releasing the names give people the idea the problem is confined to just those brands, said study senior author Dr.

were herbal extracts, while others were minerals, vitamins and other substances. Womens Health Diet, Fitness and Self Image Especially dangerous, she said, is that people often combine these products with coffee or other caffeinecontaining drinks, which affect the heart even more. Next, the researchers scoured medical databases, including Medline, Pubmed and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, to find out if there was any significant association between the ingredients and cardiac problems. They identified ingredients with at least one report of lifethreatening cardiac side effects.

One of the hazardous ingredients that was found in the products has been banned on the Her advice for consumers thinking of buying weightloss products over the Internet? I think its crapshoot. were herbal extracts, while others were minerals, vitamins and other substances.

One of the hazardous ingredients that was found in the products has been banned on the Especially dangerous, she said, is that people often combine these products with coffee or other caffeinecontaining drinks, which affect the heart even more. They identified ingredients with at least one report of lifethreatening cardiac side effects. Womens Health Her advice for consumers thinking of buying weightloss products over the Internet? I think its crapshoot.

Health News Food and Drug Administration banned it in The study results make sense to Elisa Odabashian, director of the institutes clinical arrhythmia research lab and clinical associate professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston. Next, the researchers scoured medical databases, including Medline, Pubmed and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, to find out if there was any significant association between the ingredients and cardiac problems. Odabashian worked on efforts to ephedracontaining products banned in California. The study was expected to be presented at the Heart Rhythm Societys annual meeting, in San Francisco.

The other ingredients that be potentially dangerous to the heart included bitter orange, Camellia sinensis, green tea, buckwheat, guarana, Korean ginseng, licorice root, Synephrine HCl, caffeine anhydrous and citrus aurantium. They found the brands by entering the common search terms diet pills and weightloss supplements into popular Internet search engines, including Google, MSN and Yahoo. Odabashian worked on efforts to ephedracontaining products banned in California. To their surprise, the researchers found one brand included ma huang, also known as Chinese ephedra, even though the Womens Health dont think you should be doing it.

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