Syndromic obesity (SO) refers to obesity when it occurs as part of a

syndrome A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms which are correlated with each other and often associated with a particular disease or disorder. The word derives from the Greek language, Greek σύνδρομον, meaning "concurrence". When a sy ...

, often along with

intellectual disability Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom), and formerly mental retardation (in the United States), Rosa's Law, Pub. L. 111-256124 Stat. 2643(2010).Archive is a generalized neurodevelopmental ...

. Often syndromic obesity is mediated by abnormal development of the

hypothalamus The hypothalamus (: hypothalami; ) is a small part of the vertebrate brain that contains a number of nucleus (neuroanatomy), nuclei with a variety of functions. One of the most important functions is to link the nervous system to the endocrin ...

(see hypothalamic obesity). Known types of syndromic obesity include some types of monogenic obesity and: * Prader Willi syndrome * Bardet-Biedl syndrome * Alstrom syndrome * 16p11.2 deletion syndrome

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