Insulin Resistance Childhood Precursors and Adult Disease /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zeitler, Philip Scott. (Editor), Nadeau, Kristen J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2009.
• Series: Contemporary Endocrinology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Family medicine.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Endocrinology.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-192-5

The prevalence of disorders related to insulin resistance has continued to increase throughout the developed and developing world. The worlds population has continued to become more obese and sedentary. Of great concern in the last decade is the extension of these deleterious lifestyle patterns to...

Table of Contents:

• 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
• 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 ovarian syndrome and metabolic syndrome
• Effects of exercise in metabolic syndrome and diabetes: a central role for insulin sensitivity
• Weight loss medications and the metabolic syndrome.