Drugs That Cause Weight Gain

Not-Approved Weight Gain Supplements as a Cause of AVN: A Cautionary Report

Introduction: Avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head is a leading cause of end-stage joint disease in the young population that can conduct patients to total hip replacement in early life. There are various risk factors including, trauma, corticosteroids, thrombosis, hypertension, and alcohol. There is a growing number of femoral head AVN patients with a history of self-medication with he...

Sexual dySfunctionS Drugs that cause sexual dysfunction

Sexual dysfunction is a common and distressing side effect of many drugs, both prescribed and otherwise. in this brief overview, the normal biology of sexual function is outlined, together with the central and peripheral underlying chemical mechanisms. Knowledge of the normal biology of sexual function, along with knowledge of the mechanism of action of different drugs, helps one to predict whe...

Extra calories cause weight gain--but how much?

HOW MUCH WEIGHT WOULD AN INDIVIDUAL GAIN BY eating an extra chocolate chip cookie every day for life? One approach to answering this question, frequently used in textbooks and scientific articles, is based on the assumption that a pound (454 g) of fat tissue has about 3500 kilocalories (kcal). Thus, a daily 60-kcal cookie would be expected to produce 0.2 kg (0.5 lb) weight gain in a month, 2.7 ...

Genetic Mutations that Cause Coronary Artery Disease

Patterns of Maternal Weight Gain During Pregnancy and Birth Weight

Anthropometric parameters are an important indicator of health and nutritional status comprising the whole span of mans life. However, they are not of the same degree of simplicity and sensitivity in assessing the public health status. During recent decades many studies have attempted to examine the relationships of these measurements in order to present simple alternatives for similar purposes...