Fatigue

Weight controlling protein may be source of fatigue in chronic hepatitis C

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 26th, 2002

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Scientists think leptin, a protein thought to control weight, may be the source of some fatigue in patients, especially females, who have chronic hepatitis C.

Doctors in France have undertaken a study examining fatigue in men and women diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C. What they found was that fatigue is particularly pronounced in those patients, and that leptin levels, thought to regulate weight and energy usage, may contribute to that fatigue.

Their study included 78 patients with chronic hepatitis C, 13 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis, and 22 healthy controls. Each person was measured for...

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