Hormone drugs can interfere with energy metabolism, increase appetite and make people gain weight.
Psychotropic drugs such as antidepressants including paroxetine, sertraline, amitriptyline and mirtazapine, antipsychotics including olanzapine, risperidone and quetiapine, and antiepileptic drugs such as carbamazepine and gabapentin; Hormone drugs, including prednisone and methylprednisolone, are important drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and some cancers. At the same time, these drugs will interfere with energy metabolism, increase appetite and make people gain weight.
Long-term use of contraceptives containing progesterone will increase appetite and lead to obesity; Oral pioglitazone, glimepiride, insulin and other diabetes drugs can promote weight gain; Antihypertensive drugs such as metoprolol, atenolol, propranolol, amlodipine, etc. Will increase the patient's weight. The side effects of these drugs are mainly water and sodium retention, leading to edema and weight gain.
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By adjusting the diet structure, the influence of drugs on weight can be reduced. It can increase the intake of dietary fiber and water and reduce the intake of calories. At the same time, it is necessary to diversify the calorie intake in the diet. For example, you can eat several times a day, eat well for breakfast and lunch, and don't eat too much for dinner.
At the same time, we should increase the amount of exercise. This diet is a long-term process, and it is not recommended to use diet pills to lose weight quickly, because diet pills will cause side effects such as metabolic disorder, affect physical condition, and may also make previous diseases recur.
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