Endocrine Abstracts

Background: According to the 6th National Nutrition Health Survey, the Filipino is generally unfit, with increasing incidences of major risk factors for cardiovascular disease like hypertension, abnormal lipid profile, obesity and diabetes over the last 5 years. Orlistat, a lipase inhibitor is one of the medications used to facilitate weight loss in obese patients. Given that weight loss is known to be associated with an improvement in the serum lipid profile, concurrent impro...