The metabolic syndrome /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Byrne, Christopher D., Wild, Sarah H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, England ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, [2005]
Series:Diabetes in practice.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The global burden of the metabolic syndrome and its consequences for diabetes and cardiovascular disease
  • Ethnicity and the metabolic syndrome
  • Development origins of vascular dysfunction and disease
  • Developmental origins of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes
  • Recent progress in the identification of genes predisposing to the metabolic syndrome
  • Atherothrombosis and the metabolic syndrome
  • Oxidative stress, insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease
  • Inflammation, cardiovascular disease and the metabolic syndrome
  • Adipocytokines and the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome
  • Peripheral arterial disease
  • Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Nutrition : its relevance in development and treatment of the metabolic syndrome
  • Growth hormone, exercise and energy expenditure in the metabolic syndrome
  • Treatments for the metabolic syndrome