Obesity and diabetes

Obesity and diabetes / editors, Anthony H. Barnett, Sudhesh Kumar.

Obesity has become the most common chronic disease of the present day, with significant increases in prevalence in populations across the world and all age groups. This has resulted in a dramatic increase in obesity-related metabolic and cardiovascular complications, making it an important public he...

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Other Authors: Barnett, A. H. (Anthony H.), 1951-, Kumar, Sudhesh
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, ©2004.
Series:Diabetes in practice.
Subjects:
Obesity.
Type 2 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes
Obesity
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Table of Contents:
  • Changing epidemiology of obesity: implications for diabetes / Jonathan Webber
  • The genetics of human obesity / Victor J. Lawrence
  • Lifestyle determinants of obesity / Susan A. Jebb and Jeremy Krebs
  • Pathogenesis of obesity-related type 2 diabetes / Phillip McTernan and Sudhesh Kumar
  • Obesity and prevention of type 2 diabetes / Jaakko Tuomilehto, Jaana Lindström and Karri Silventoinen
  • Diet and food-based therapies for obesity in diabetic patients / Iain Broom
  • Behavioural modification in the treatment of obesity / Brent Van Dorsten
  • Physical activity, obesity and type 2 diabetes / Carlton B. Cooke and Paul J. Gately.
  • Diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease: therapeutic implications / Jayadave Shakher and Anthony H. Barnett
  • Drug therapy for the obese diabetic patient / John P.H. Wilding
  • The role of bariatric surgery in the management of type 2 diabetes / David D. Kerrigan, James Evans and John Pinkney
  • Childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes / Krystyna A. Matyka and Timothy Barrett
  • Obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome / Diana Raskauskiene and Richard N. Clayton
  • Management of diabesity in primary care: a multidisciplinary approach / Ian W. Campbell.

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