STUDIES ON THE METABOLISM OF OBESITY

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It seems rather unfortunate that the interesting problem of obesity has been befogged by the niceties of endocrine terminology, for attempts at elucidating the underlying metabolic anomaly of obesity cannot rest satisfied with names. It is perfectly true that diseases of certain endocrine organs, notably the thyroid, hypophysis and sex glands, are associated with symptom complexes embracing obesity, yet up to the present time it is extremely doubtful whether any exact metabolic explanation has been made of the concomitant obesity except in hypothyroidism, where a lowered basal metabolism exists. In other instances of endocrine disease, changes in the metabolism are inconsistently found, but neither theory nor ascertained fact has conclusively eliminated the thyroid as an etiologic agent in the obesity. Some of the anatomic localizations of fat deposits that have been described as pathognomonic of disturbances of special glands are of more interest from the standpoint of clinical speculation than

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