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Purpose : Weight changes, especially weight gain, is a side effect of antiepileptics(especially valproate
and carbamazepine). This may be sufficiently severe to cause noncompliance or to require
the withdrawal of effective treatment. Unfortunately, the exact mechanism of weight change is
not illustrated. Several reports and our experiment suggested that weight gain highly correlated
with a familial tendency of obesity. The genetic makeup is a... |
