title: Human obesity: a sufficient cause.
abstract: It is sometimes useful to group the causes for any biological event into those that are necessary and those that are sufficient. Our current, partial understanding of human obesity has come through a focus on readily accessible necessary causes. The sufficient causes are likely to be more complex, dealing with the integration of developmental events, behavior and complex biochemical systems.
authors.affiliation: Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021-6390, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hirsch
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000502:physiology; D002149:Energy Intake; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology*