Pathogenetic rationale for the treatment of obesity
Tereshchenko, I.V.
Problemy Endokrinologii 39(4): 18-21
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0375-9660 PMID: 8415522 Document Number: 420445
On the basis of experience gained in prolonged follow-up of 1095 obese patients, studies of their hormonal homeostasis using computer-aided cluster analysis the author comes to a conclusion that division of obesity cases into constitutional exogenous and hypothalamic is conditional. The hypothalamic syndrome develops in 100% of obesity cases. A course of pathogenetic therapy paralleled by a subcaloric diet and exercise therapy is suggested. Bitemporal inductothermy proved to be effective. The new complex for obesity treatment includes low-caloric diets combined with pathogenetic drug therapy and physiotherapeutic exposure of the mid-brain.