Hypothalamus damage increases risk of intractable obesity in children with brain tumors.

Cancer Weekly | April 8, 2003 | Copyright

2003 APR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Damage to the hypothalamus as a result of treatment for brain cancer puts children at risk of obesity, according to a report in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

"Hypothalamic obesity, a syndrome of intractable weight gain due to hypothalamic damage, is an uncommon but devastating complication for children surviving brain tumors," said Robert H. Lustig and colleagues at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and the Chicago Medical ...

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