OBESITY IN MEN: A CLINICAL STUDY OF TWENTY-FIVE CASES
Authors: M MENDELSON, N WEINBERG, A J STUNKARD
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1961)

Article1 April 1961OBESITY IN MEN: A CLINICAL STUDY OF TWENTY-FIVE CASESMYER MENDELSON, M.D., NORRIS WEINBERG, Ph.D., ALBERT J. STUNKARD, M.D.MYER MENDELSON, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, NORRIS WEINBERG, Ph.D.Search for more papers by this author, ALBERT J. STUNKARD, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-54-4-660 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptCurrent clinical concepts of obesity have been derived almost entirely from the study of obese women. By chance or by design most obese groups which have been studied have contained few if any men, and little attention has been paid to the possibility that obesity in men may differ from obesity in women. The present clinical study of 25 obese men done at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania indicates that a difference does exist. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*Received for publication October 11, 1960.†Supported in part by Research Grant M-3684 from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service.‡Present address: Department of Psychiatry, University of California Medical School, Los Angeles 24, California.From the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Albert J. Stunkard, M.D., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St., Philadelphia 4, Pa. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byEmotion and eating in obesity: A review of the literaturePersonality changes after gastric banding surgery for morbid obesity. A prospective studyPsychopathology and ObesityaSocial and Psychological Consequences of ObesityTHOMAS A. WADDEN, Ph.D., ALBERT J. 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