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Benfluorex

What the body turns Benfluorex into, as its Wikipedia article records it.

Quoted from Wikipedia, not yet written up by hand. Its infobox gives no timings, so this shows only what the article text says it turns into.

BenfluorextakenNorfenfluraminemetaboliteExitKidney
  1. hoursfrom the article text

    What else it turns into

    “In fact, Benfluorex acts as a prodrug to norfenfluramine, a worldwide withdrawn anorectic because of its high incidence of cardiac fibrosis which is completely out of line for treating type 2 diabetes.” 2

  2. exitleaves the body

    Excretion

    Kidney 1

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, Benfluorex, drug infobox (revision 1377667061), CC BY-SA 4.0. Values quoted as they appear, with wiki markup removed.
  2. Wikipedia, Benfluorex, article text (revision 1377667061), CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences quoted as they appear.

Half-lives vary between people, doses and routes. This page explains what the body does with a drug. It is not dosing advice.