Human obesity: a sufficient cause.
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.
Hirsch
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Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021-6390, USA.
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000502:physiology; D002149:Energy Intake; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology*