Obesity and Diabetes (eBook)

Professor AH Barnett, MD, FRCP, Department of Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, AL. Dr S Kumar, MD, FRCP, Professor of Medicine (Diabetes & Metabolism), Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Canada.

Foreword.

List of Contributors.

1. Changing Epidemiology of Obesity - Implications for Diabetes
(Jonathan Webber).

2. The Genetics of Human Obesity (Victor J. Lawrence and Tahseen
Choudhury).

3. Lifestyle Determinants of Obesity (Susan A. Jebb and Jeremy
Krebs).

4. Pathogenesis of Obesity-Related Type 2 Diabetes (Phillip
McTernan and Sudhesh Kumar).

5. Obesity and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes (Jaakko Tuomilehto,
Jaana Lindström and Karri Silventoinen

6. Diet and Food-based Therapies for Obesity in Diabetic
Patients (Iain Broom).

7. Behavioural Modification in the Treatment of Obesity (Brent
Van Dorsten).

8. Physical Activity, Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes (Carlton B.
Cooke and Paul J. Gately).

9. Diabetes, Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease -
Therapeutic Implications (Jayadave Shakher and Anthony H.
Barnett).

10. Drug Therapy for the Obese Diabetic Patient (John P. H.
Wilding).

11. The Role of Bariatric Surgery in the Management of Type 2
Diabetes (David D. Kerrigan, James Evans and John Pinkney).

12. Childhood Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes (Krystyna A. Matyka
and Timothy Barrett).

13. Obesity and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (Diana Raskauskiene
and Richard N. Clayton).

14. Management of Diabesity in Primary Care: a Multidisciplinary
Approach (Ian W. Campbell).

Index.

"An easily readable
text suitable to general pediatricians and family physicians."
(Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), Vol. 3: September
2005)

"...recommended for all professionals with an interest in
this field...the book features many suggestions of practical
value." (E-STREAMS, September 2005)

"...a great reference book, is clearly laid out, offers
practical guidance and is a very interesting read..." (Practical
Diabetes International, Vol 22 (6) July 2005)