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Concern about the side effects of Herbalife weight loss products has grown,
however, after the Food and Drug Administration attributed a 1998 cardiac
arrest suffered by a 28- year-old woman to an Herbalife ephedrine product,
Original Green. Ephedrine, a chemical cousin of amphetamines that increases
blood pressure and heart rate, has been linked by the FDA to hundreds of
adverse reactions and dozens of deaths. On Aug. 8 and 9, the U.S. Public
Health Service held public meetings in Washington about the safety of
dietary supplements containing ephedrine.
http://www.mlmwatch.org/04C/Herbalife/herbalife06.html
Mi si potrebbe obbiettare che non è un articolo scientifico, bene allora
ecco il documento da Medline:
1: J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 1999;37(4):485-489 Related Articles, Books,
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J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 2000;38(3):351
J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 2000;38(3):353-4
Hypersensitivity myocarditis associated with ephedra use.
Zaacks SM, Klein L, Tan CD, Rodriguez ER, Leikin JB.
Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
BACKGROUND: Ephedrine has previously been described as a causative factor of
vasculitis but myocarditis has not yet been associated with either ephedrine
or its plant derivative ephedra. CASE REPORT: A 39-year-old African American
male with hypertension presented to Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical
Center with a 1-month history of progressive dyspnea on exertion, orthopnea,
and dependent edema. He was taking Ma Huang (Herbalife) 1-3 tablets twice
daily for 3 months along with other vitamin supplements, pravastatin, and
furosemide. Physical examination revealed a male in mild respiratory
distress. The lung fields had rales at both bases without audible wheezes.
Internal jugular venous pulsations were 5 cm above the sternal notch.
Medical therapy with intravenous furosemide and oral enalapril was initiated
upon admission. Cardiac catheterization with coronary angiography revealed
normal coronary arteries, a dilated left ventricle, moderate pulmonary
hypertension, and a pulmonary capillary wedge pressure of 34 mm Hg. The
patient had right ventricular biopsy performed demonstrating mild myocyte
hypertrophy and an infiltrate consisting predominantly of lymphocytes with
eosinophils present in significantly increased numbers. Treatment for
myocarditis was initiated with azothioprine 200 mg daily and prednisone 60
mg per day with a tapering course over 6 months. Anticoagulation with
warfarin and diuretics was initiated and angiotensin-converting enzyme
inhibition was continued. Hydralazine was added later. One month into
therapy, an echocardiogram demonstrated improved left ventricular function
with only mild global hypokinesis. A repeat right ventricular biopsy 2
months after the first admission showed no evidence of myocarditis. At 6
months, left ventricular ejection fraction was normal (EFN 50%) and the
patient asymptomatic. CONCLUSION: Ephedra (Ma Huang) is the suspected cause
of hypersensitivity myocarditis in this patient due to the temporal course
of disease and its propensity to induce vasculitis.
PMID: 10465246 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Leikin JB, Klein L. Related Articles
Ephedra causes myocarditis.
J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 2000;38(3):353-4. No abstract available.
2:  Kurt TL. Related Articles
Hypersensitivity myocarditis with ephedra use.
J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 2000;38(3):351. No abstract available.
3:  Zaacks SM, Klein L, Tan CD, Rodriguez ER, Leikin JB. Related Articles
Hypersensitivity myocarditis associated with ephedra use.
J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 1999;37(4):485-9.
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Consumer Health Digest #01-08
Your Weekly Update of News and Reviews
February 19, 2001
Current # of subscribers: 886
"Herbalife story" is largely myth. The Los Angeles Times has published a
lengthy background report on Herbalife founder Mark Huges, who died last
year from a toxic combination of alcohol and the antidepressant drug Doxepin
[Heller M. Death and denial at Herbalife: The untold story of Mark Hughes'
public image, secret vice and tragic destiny. Los Angeles Times Magazine,
February 18, 2001].
http://www.latimes.com/news/timesmag/20010217/t000014536.html
 The article
describes how Hughes portrayed his life as one of tragedy, resolve, and
triumph over adversity, but the real Hughes was a very dysfunctional person
with a serious drinking problem. According to Hughes, practically everybody
in his childhood family had had a weight problem and he became interested in
doing something about this after his mother got "hooked" on a prescription
weight control product. But Stuard Hartman, who was married to and lived
with Hughes's mother until Hughes was 13 years old, said that she was not
overweight and was addicted to the narcotic Percodan, which she combined
with Darvon to prolong her "high" periods.
Saluti.
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