Title : Weight loss in patients treated long-term with levodopa. Metabolic aspects.

Pub. Date : 1976 Nov

PMID : 824407






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1 We suggest that weight loss in the older Parkinsonian patients treated over long periods with high doses of levodopa, is due to the enhancement of the lipolytic activity of the ageing fat cells caused by high levels of circulating insulin. Levodopa insulin Homo sapiens