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Fen-Phen was sold not as a mere diet drug but as a treatment for obesity, which Wyeth, the manufacturer, portrayed as a dangerous public health problem [17].
For example, higher birth weight among term infants is associated with birth complications, [ 3 ] as well as reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and hypertension in later life, but an increased risk of obesity.
For instance, adolescents who died in accidents had fatty streaks in the coronary arteries and aorta that were found at, autopsy, and were associated with blood lipid profile, blood pressure, and obesity status obtained at one or more points antemortem [ 26 27 ] . Moreover, a recent longitudinal study indicated that the occurrence of overweight, hypertension, and dyslipidemia in young adults (aged 19-32 y) was associated with these same risk factors in childhood.
Obesity is well known to be associated with insulin resistance [ 21].
The big breakthrough in understanding obesity came in 1994, when experiments on lab mice revealed that the hormone leptin controls the setpoint by controlling satiety.