Session Information
2011 Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting
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Known but Unusual Causes of Weight Gain
Track
:
Track 5 — Clinical and Professional Practice
Program Code:
405
Date:
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Time:
8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
EST
SPEAKER
(S):
Jeanine Albu, Columbia University
Paul Nathan, The Hospital for Sick Children
Louis Aronne, Cornell University
Description
Learning Objectives:
- Explain why some survivors of cancer during childhood or adulthood develop obesity as a consequence of their cancer treatment.
- State the risk for other metabolic abnormalities, such as dyslipidemia and glucose intolerance after cancer therapy
- Explain the changes in body composition and adipose tissue distribution which accompany unfavorable metabolic changes in HIV-infected patients treated with certain HAART agents
- Discuss treatments which may offset the changes in body composition and adipose tissue distribution which accompany unfavorable metabolic changes in HIV-infected patients treated with certain HAART agents as well as about recently developed HAART without such unfavorable side effects
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