Quick Response of Fat Tissue to Treatment of Thyroid Disordersand to Dieting in Obesity

Abstract

The clinical courses of a patient with simple obesity and four patients with thyroid disorderswere followed up, during treatment, for looking into the effects of dieting and thyroid hormoneon a tumover of fat tissue.We obtained the following results.Reduced body weight in anohginally obese patient with hyperthyroidism should be owing mostly to a reduction in fattissue.In the case of abnormal thyroid function of the obese, the affected fat tissue quicklyresponds to an appropriate therapy.On the other hand, emaciation in an originally lean patient with hyperthyroidism should be due mainly to a reduction in musde tissue, which graduallyimproves with treatment.Thus thyroid hormone plays an important role in the regulation ofserum lipids and volume of fat.In the case of treatment of obesity, we have an impression thatcaliper measurement by a physician can in itself have a good effect on controlling body weight.