Chorionic Gonadotropin in the Treatment of Obese Women

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Abstract
No effect of chorionic gonadotropin therapy in producing weight loss was found in a study on a group of twenty obese clinic patients. The women were treated for a forty-day period with a 550 calorie diet and a daily injection of either chorionic gonadotropin or a placebo solution, administered by the double-blind technic. All but one subject lost weight, but the losses were small and not uniform, suggesting varied adherence to the diet. The basal metabolic rate was increased in four treated patients and two control subjects. These changes could not be correlated with weight loss, apparent adherence to diet or protein-bound iodine levels.

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