Patent ID: 6875428

Claim:
A method for treating obesity in a mammal, comprising the step of administering to the mammal an effective amount of a polymer substituted with one or more lipase inhibiting groups, wherein the polymer is substituted with at least one group having the following structure: wherein, R is a hydrogen, hydrophobic moiety, —NR 2 R 3 , —CO 2 H, —OCOR 2 , —NHCOR 2 , a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group; Z is an oxygen, alkylene, sulfur, —SO 3 —, —CO 2 —, —NR 2 —, —CONR 2 —, —PO 4 H— or a spacer group; R 2 and R 3 are, independently, a hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alinhatic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group; and p is an integer from zero to about 30.