According to the FDA, in clinical trials, at one year, patients taking the recommended dose had an average weight loss of 6.7%, while patients taking the higher dose had an average weight loss of 8.9%, when compared to patients taking placebo.
The punishment is most severe for those very thin women who put on weight to become average weight.
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In one study, the average weight loss for a group taking a higher dose (32 mg) of naltrexone plus bupropion for about a year was 6.1% while for a lower dose (16 mg) it was 5%. (People taking a placebo had an average weight loss of 1.3%.) However, only half the participants who started the trial actually finished it.
Both the high-dose and the low-dose colonies grew more slowly than the undosed ones, gaining 8-12% less weight on average.
However, the researchers did find that black dieters (with an average weight loss of 4.2 pounds) seemed to have a harder time losing weight than white dieters (with an average of 14.7 pounds).
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It is feared any potential benefits from the extra boost of 80bhp for up to six seconds each lap will initially be negated by the system's weight (on average 35kg) and its knock-on effect on balance, weight distribution and reliability, not to mention the cost and anxiety over its safety.
From that Connerty learned that 90% lose weight, on average 1.5 to 2 pounds a week.
The average weight is now over 12lbs, compared to 10lbs a few years ago.
The average gestation period of the six control babies was 33 weeks and their average weight 2, 075g.
At the end of four months, participants, who dwindled from 230 to 166, recorded an average weight loss of 6.4%.
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As both jet fuel prices and average weight have increased over the last few decades, airlines are largely stuck paying the price.
Average weight they carry is 37kg. 38% of them have had accidents.
It has the wing span of a commercial airplane but the weight of the average family car, making it vulnerable to bad weather.
The scientist calculated his findings based on data revealing the average weight of an American had increased by 10 pounds in the 1990s.
Compared with placebo, treatment with Belviq for up to one year was associated with average weight loss ranging from 3 percent to 3.7 percent.
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For example, the average weight for a passenger traveling in the summer (including carry-on luggage) went from 180 pounds in 1995 to 190 pounds in 2003.
The original warrant for John Doe No. 2 described a man about 5 feet 10 inches, average weight, with brown hair and a tattoo on his left arm.
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The former were born after a gestation period of 27 weeks on average, compared with 31 weeks, and their average weight at birth was 820g, compared with 1415g.
Lighter products can lessen energy needed in the manufacturing process, and "within the last 20 years the average weight of a glass bottle has been reduced by approximately 30%, " Hoffmeyer Boas said.
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The report published on Tuesday - part-funded by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - looked more at changes in the average weight and height of passengers in the past few decades than the highly-publicised fears over so-called "traveller's thrombosis".
The findings indicated the relationship between birth weight and pollution was dose related - the higher the exposure, the lower the average birth weight.
The average vehicle weight has gone up by about 900 pounds over that time, from 3, 200 pounds to almost 4, 100 pounds.
The weight lifters lost an average of 1.4 kilograms (3.1 pounds) of fat compared to the control group, while the combination exercisers lost 1.7 kilograms (3.7 pounds) of fat compared to their sedentary peers.
Developed by the University of Minnesota using funding from DARPA, the Recon Scout resembles your average barbell weight, but when you're not workin' those triceps, this little fellow can be heaved across flatlands, over fences, and into brick walls in order to secure a location and start feeding back video of its surroundings.
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Here, too, the recent deals punch below their weight compared to the historical average of 96%.
That diverts from landfills about 97% of the weight of old machines on average, IBM says.
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So Lloyds, for example, attaches a risk weight of 16% on average against its entire book of mortgages.
Average self-reported weight is up nearly 20 pounds since 1990, according to a November 2011 Gallup poll.
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The results, to be published in Evolution and Human Behaviour, show that the men and women collected on average about the same weight of mushrooms.
Individual talent and performance statistics like overall scoring disparity, team batting average, home runs or a pitching staff's earned run average are given no weight at all.
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