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Medications That May Cause Weight Gain


Many medicines can cause weight gain as a side effect. Some of the drugs that can cause weight gain include drugs for the following common conditions:
  • Diabetes: Including insulin, sulfonylureas (e.g. glipizide, glyburide), thiazoledinediones (e.g. pioglitazone, rosiglitazone)

  • Blood Pressure: Including alpha blockers (e.g., clonidine, prazosin, terazosin); beta blockers (e.g. propranolol); other e.g. methyldopa

  • Psychiatric drugs such as

    • Antidepressants: including certain SSRI or related drugs (e.g. mirtazepine, paroxitine), or tricyclics (e.g. amitryptiline, imipramine, nortriptyline), or MAOI drugs (e.g. phenelzine)

    • Antipsychotics: including clozapine, olanzapine, risperidone

    • Neuroleptics: including phenothiazines (e.g. chlorpromazine)

    • Other psychiatric drugs: e.g. lithium

  • Contraceptives: including progestins (oral contraceptives with low progesterone are less likely to cause weight gain than long acting injectable forms e.g. Depot Medroxy Progesterone Acetate)

  • Antiepileptics: including valproic acid, gabapentin, carbamazepine

  • Antihistamines: including cyproheptadine

  • Others: e.g. Isoniazid

 

 

Last modification date: Thu Jul 24 11:22:34 2008
URL: http://www.uihealthcare.com /depts/obesity/medications.html