Orlistat, sold under the brand name Xenical among others, is a medication used to treat obesity. Its primary function is preventing the absorption of fats...

popular for weight loss. The medications liraglutide, naltrexone/bupropion, orlistat, semaglutide, and tirzepatide are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration...

abetalipoproteinemia. Other causes: Drugs that can produce steatorrhea include orlistat, a slimming pill, or as adverse effect of octreotide or lanreotide, used...

cardiovascular diseases if not managed. An example of a lipase inhibitor is orlistat. Lipase inhibitors may affect the amount of fat absorbed, yet they do not...

drug designed to treat obesity. It acts in the same way as the older drug orlistat (Xenical) by inhibiting pancreatic lipase, an enzyme that breaks down triglycerides...

Rectal discharge is intermittent or continuous expression of liquid from the anus (per rectum). Normal rectal mucus is needed for proper excretion of waste...

medications octreotide (a synthetic analogue of the hormone somatostatin) and orlistat (a lipase inhibitor that decreases absorption of dietary fats). Permanent...

the pancreatic lipase inhibitor lipstatin, of which the antiobesity drug orlistat is a derivative. Weibel E, Hadvary P, Hochuli E, Kupfer E, Lengsfeld H...

Rapid weight loss increases risk of gallstones. The weight loss drug orlistat is known to increase the risk of gallstones. Cholecystokinin deficiency...

with net fat increase". Healio. 13 February 2018. "DailyMed - XENICAL- orlistat capsule". dailymed.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 30 October 2019. Ramanathan S...