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February 5, 1996 8:00 AM UTC

Thomas Jefferson University researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that serum leptin concentrations are correlated with the percentage of body fat in humans, suggesting that most obese patients are insensitive to endogenous leptin production.

Previous studies of leptin have suggested a potential role in regulating appetite. ...