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Obesity in patients with CP might be influenced by eating disorders, negative mood alterations and increased anxiety-related personality traits.

Introduction: Patients with craniopharyngioma (CP) have disturbances of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis and serious comorbidities such as obesity. We hypothesized that the secretion of hormones regulating the nutritional status is altered in adult patients with CP compared with patients with non-functioning pituitary adenoma (NFPA). Methods: We included 40 CP (50% males, mean age: 49.6G14.3 years) and 40 NFPA (72.5% males, mean age: 63.4G9.8 years) patients. We measured glucose, insulin, leptin, total ghrelin, peptide-YY (PYY) and cholecystokinin (CCK) during oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). Fat mass (FM) was determined by dual X-ray absorptiometry. Results: Gender distribution was not significantly different, but CP patients were significantly younger (P!0.001). CP patients had significantly higher BMI and FM than NFPA patients (BMI 32G8 vs 28G4 kg/m 2 , PZ0.009 and FM 37G9 vs 33G9%,

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