Fat Absorption Decreasing Agents

Fat absorption decreasing agents are a formulary and compendial classification of antiobesity medications, principally represented by gastric and pancreatic lipase inhibitors such as orlistat These agents exert their therapeutic effect locally within the gastrointestinal tract by reversibly inhibiting digestive lipases, preventing the hydrolysis of dietary triglycerides into absorbable free fatty acids and monoglycerides By blocking the intestinal absorption of roughly thirty percent of ingested...

Fat absorption decreasing agents are a formulary and compendial classification of antiobesity medications, principally represented by gastric and pancreatic lipase inhibitors such as orlistat These agents exert their therapeutic effect locally within the gastrointestinal tract by reversibly inhibiting digestive lipases, preventing the hydrolysis of dietary triglycerides into absorbable free fatty acids and monoglycerides By blocking the intestinal absorption of roughly thirty percent of ingested...

Fat absorption decreasing agents are a formulary and compendial classification of antiobesity medications, principally represented by gastric and pancreatic lipase inhibitors such as orlistat