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Contraindications

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These include:

  • organic causes of obesity
  • psychiatric illness or a history of major eating disorders
  • concomitant use of centrally-acting drugs (including tryptophan and MAOIs)
  • coronary, peripheral or cerebral vascular disease
  • arrhythmias
  • inadequately-controlled blood pressure (>145/90 mmHg)

Check the summary of product characteristics before prescribing this drug.

Reference:

  • 1) Prescriber (2001), 12 (20), 75-81.

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