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What are the characteristics of birth defect that lead to childhood obesity?

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Dr. Jay Park answered

"fat baby" syndromes: * prader-willi (obesity, hypotonia, small hand & feet) *beckwith-wiedemann (macrosomia, omphalocele, macroglossia.Ear creases) *sotos (macrosomia, macrocephaly, large hands & feet) *weaver (macrosomia, accelerated skeletal maturation) *bardet-biedl (obesity, retinal pigmentation, polydactyly).

Answered 6/25/2013

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