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Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: can studies of obesity provide the key to understanding pathogenesis?
British journal of neurosurgery - 1 Apr 2008
Ooi L-Y, Walker B R, Bodkin P A, Whittle I R
Abstract excerpt
The pathogenesis of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is poorly understood. Several mechanisms have been suggested, but no one mechanism has been able to account for all manifestations of the disease. Although IIH predominantly affects obese, premenopausal women, little is known about whether or how the obesity contributes to the IIH. Obesity is a heterogeneous condition, consisting of different...
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