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Alternative årsager til fedme

Translated title of the contribution: Alternative causes of obesity

Arne V Astrup, Stephan Rössner, Thorkild I A Sørensen

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    Abstract

    The prevailing understanding of the causes of obesity is based on the disturbance of the thermodynamic law of energy balance, primarily through increased intake or decreased expenditure of energy. Alternative causes of obesity, which still respect the law but also allow for primary fat accumulation, are: virus infection of fat cells, energy supply from bacterial fermentation of indigestible food components, psychosocial factors mediated by psychoneuroendocrine pathways, sleeplessness or poor quality of sleep and early life programming, in addition to the well-known and proven genetic programming.

    Translated title of the contributionAlternative causes of obesity
    Original languageDanish
    JournalUgeskrift for Laeger
    Volume168
    Issue number2
    Pages (from-to)135-7
    Number of pages3
    ISSN0041-5782
    Publication statusPublished - 9 Jan 2006

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