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The causes and consequences of obesity: Lessons from the extremes.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 12:00to13:00

The causes and consequences of obesity: Lessons from the extremes.

Speaker: Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly

Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, Director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge;
Honorary Consultant Physician at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK

At the end of the presentation, the audience will:

  1. Learn about the importance of the hypothalamus in the control of human appetite.
  2. Better understand the role of genetic factors in obesity.
  3. Understand how the health of adipose tissue determines the extent to which whether chronic overnutrition has adverse consequences.

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