Insulin resistance : childhood precursors and adult disease /

Insulin resistance : childhood precursors and adult disease /

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Imprint:Totowa, NJ : Humana, c2008.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 331 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.)
Language:English
Series:Contemporary endocrinology
Contemporary endocrinology (Totowa, N.J. : Unnumbered)
Subject:
Insulin resistance.
Insulin Resistance.
Insulin resistance.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11957805
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Other authors / contributors:Zeitler, Philip Scott, 1957-
Nadeau, Kristen J.
ISBN:9781597451925
1597451924
9781588298751 (hbk.)
1588298752 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Summary:Features the status of the understanding of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome in children and adults. This book focuses on childhood precursors of the disorder (fetal, perinatal, and childhood factors) since this is an area of great promise for prevention of expansion of the epidemic.
Other form:Print version: Insulin resistance. Totowa, NJ : Humana, c2008 9781588298751 1588298752
Table of Contents:
  • The metabolic syndrome: definitions, controversies, and clinical utility / Lewis W Johnson, Ruth S Weinstock
  • Epidemiology of the Metabolic syndrome and related disorders in children and adolescents / Jennifer L Foltz, Stephen R Cook
  • Metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents worldwide / Orit Pinhas-Hamiel
  • Maternal-fetal contributors to the insulin resistance syndrome in youth / Dana Dabelea
  • Early childhood contributions to insulin resistance / David B Dunger, Burak Salgin, Ken K Ong
  • Molecular Mechanisms of insulin resistance / Boris Draznin
  • Techniques used to assess insulin action / Michael J Pagliassotti, Kyle T. Pfaffenbach, Tracy J. Horton
  • Adiposity is the enemy: body composition and insulin sensitivity / J Higgins, William T Donahoo
  • Ectopic fat deposition: adiponectin and insulin resistance in obese adolescents / Anna M.G. Cali, Sonia Caprio
  • Mediators of insulin resistance / Rocio Periera, David Maahs
  • Insulin resistance and the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease / Ramzi Ajjan, Mark T Kearney, Peter T Grant
  • Insulin Resistance and Cardiovascular disease / Cecilia C Low Wang
  • The liver and insulin resistance: the important convergence of endocrinology and hepatology / Charissa Y Chang, Kerry Whitt, Zhenqi Liu, Stephen H Caldwell
  • Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and metabolic syndrome / Marie-Helene. Pesant, Jean-Patrice Baillargeon
  • Effects of Exercise in Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes: A Central Role for Insulin Sensitivity / Irene E Schauer, Judith. G. Regensteiner, Jane E.B. Reusch
  • Weight loss medications and the metabolic syndrome / Linda Buckley, Daniel Bessessen.

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