Obesity: a disorder of the sympathetic nervous system
1987
Dulloo, A.G. | Miller, D.S.
A comprehensive technical review summarizes and discusses obesity as a disorder associated with the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). Topics include: the health hazards, prevalence, and etiology of obesity; methods for assessing energy intake, expenditure, and balance; factors affecting energy turnover (including thermogenesis, energy needs for weight maintenance, and genetic and metabolic factors); animal model studies of obesity; some of the physiological aspects of thermogenesis; the biochemical basis for changes in energetic efficiency; drug therapy; and the role of the SNS in regulating energy balance. A model illustrating controls of energy balance by the SNS is included.(wz)
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