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- Title
Obesity in the Prader–Labhart–Willi syndrome is not due to leptin deficiency but is accentuated by hypogonadism in male patients.
- Authors
Wallace, A. Michael; Hunter, Ian; Galloway, Peter; Greene, Steve A.; Donaldson, Malcolm D.
- Abstract
Reports that the obesity in the Prader-Labhart-Willi (PLW) syndrome is not due to leptin deficiency but is accentuated by hypogonadism in male patients. Symptoms of PLW syndrome; Proposal that circulating leptin concentrations accurately reflect adipose mass and regulate adiposity in healthy human subjects; Age related differences in leptin concentrations.
- Subjects
OBESITY; PRADER-Willi syndrome
- Publication
Clinical Endocrinology, 1999, Vol 51, Issue 6, p816
- ISSN
0300-0664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00870.x