Insulin Resistance Childhood Precursors and Adult Disease
The hope for Insulin Resistance: Childhood Precursors and Adult Disease is that it will spur continued interest in the topic on the part of clinicians and researchers,perhaps promoting new points of view and creative approaches to a daunting challenge
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, NJ
Humana
2008, 2008
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008 |
| Series: | Contemporary Endocrinology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Epidemiology
- The Metabolic Syndrome: Definitions, Controversies and Clinical Utility
- Epidemiology of the Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders in Children and Adolescents
- Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents Worldwide
- Maternal-Fetal Contributors to the Insulin Resistance Syndrome in Youth
- Early Childhood Contributions to Insulin Resistance
- Pathophysiology
- Molecular Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance
- Techniques Used to Assess Insulin Action
- Adiposity is The Enemy: Body Composition and Insulin Sensitivity
- Ectopic Fat Deposition, Adiponectin and Insulin Resistance in Obese Adolescents
- Mediators of Insulin Resistance
- Insulin Resistance and the Pathogenesis of Cardiovascular Disease
- Insulin Resistance and Cardiovascular Disease
- The Liver and Insulin Resistance: The Important Convergence of Endocrinology and Hepatology
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Metabolic Syndrome
- Treatment
- Effects of Exercise in Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes: A Central Role for Insulin Sensitivity
- Weight Loss Medications and the Metabolic Syndrome