ESPE Abstracts

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Clinical and experimental evidence supports the important contribution of brain circuits in the pathogenesis of obesity. While functional perturbation of hypothalamic pathways could underlie common forms of obesity, the term “hypothalamic obesity” has been coined to define rare forms of severe overweight where a clear hypothalamic substrate, either genetic or acquired, can be identified. Addressing the problem of early-onset, severe obesity in children is of utmost...

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