Efficacy and safety of the weight-loss drug rimonabant

1 Quebec Heart Institute, Laval Hospital Research Center, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, Quebec G1V 4G5, Canada ; 2 Department of Diabetology, Metabolism, and Clinical Nutrition, University Hospital Antwerp, Faculty of Medicine (Department of Diabetology, Metabolism, and Clinical Nutrition), Edegem-Antwerp, Belgium ; 3 St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA; 4 Division of Diabetes, Nutrition, and Metabolic Disorders, CHU Sart Tilman, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.