By George A. Bray
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content material: Realities and remedy of weight problems Etiology of weight problems power stability and the managed approach Afferent indications The valuable Controller Efferent indications define of therapy ancient standpoint Mechanisms of motion at present to be had medicines unwanted side effects good points of an amazing Drug weight problems and Weight regulate Illustrated Index
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Et a/. Diurnal and ultradian rhythmicity of plasma leptin: effects 6 12 18 Time (hours) 24 36 of gender and adiposity. J C/in Endocrinol Metab 1998;83:453-9 57 AN ATLAS OF OBESITY AND WEIGHT CONTROL I. Leptin is synthesized in fat cells and placenta 2. Women have higher leptin levels than men 3. More fat means more leptin 4 Leptin acts in the brain ovary liver hematopoietic cells 5. Leptin deficiency produces obesity 6. Leptin modifies effect of starvation 7. Leptin is secreted in mother's milk 8.
In animal species and in humans, a low activity of the sympathetic nervous system is associated with obesity. : ... c v "' Figure 2. 7 One important timing mechanism for meals may be a dip in the glucose level. This figure shows the relationship of a request for a meal to a more than I0% drop in glucose some 30 min earlier. This glucose dip occurs in both animals and man. Data derived from Campfield LA, Smith FJ, Rosenbaum M, Hirsch J. Human eating: evidence for a physiological basis using a modified paradigm.
Arch Intern Med 1993; 153:849-58 Hepatic . msuhn clearance . tNa ____. 24 A pathophysiological model for the risk of developing hypertension. 5 * _____.. 25 The relationship of body mass index to the risk of cancer. There is an increase in selected cancers, namely in the uterus, ovary, breast, gall bladder, colon and prostate with increasing weight that is most noticeable when the BMI is above 30 kg/m 2. Data derived from Manson JE, Willett WC, Stampfer MJ, et a/. Body weight and mortality among women.
