The Metabolic Syndrome.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c25805 ) has announced the addition of The Metabolic Syndrome to their offering

Metabolic syndrome has become a 'hot topic', relevant to both scientists and clinicians. An increasing number of scientists are interested in the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome and its relationship with diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD). Primary health care professionals have become aware of the increasing problem of obesity, the importance of insulin resistance and its relevance to type 2 diabetes and CHD. Secondary care health care professionals working in diabetes and cardiology are realising that the majority of their patients have metabolic syndrome but are not sure how to manage this problem. Gynaecologists have for some time appreciated that patients with cystic ovaries and amenorrhea have polycystic ovarian syndrome and treatment with an insulin sensitising agent such as metformin is effective. Hepatologists have realised that many of their patients, referred for investigation of fatty liver, have metabolic syndrome but do not know what to do to treat this problem. Suddenly the metabolic syndrome has become relevant to many different, but now related disciplines, in clinical medicine. This book highlights specific important themes pertinent to the metabolic syndrome and will appeal to a broad readership.

Preface.

List of Contributors.

1.The Global Burden of the Metabolic Syndrome and its Consequences for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease (Sarah H. Wild and Christopher D. Byrne).

2. Ethnicity and the Metabolic Syndrome (Nita G. Forouhi).

3. Developmental Origins of Vascular Dysfunction and Disease (Simon Cunningham and Mark Hanson).

4. Developmental Origins of Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes (Roselle L. Cripps and Susan E. Ozanne).

5. Recent Progress in the Identification of Genes Predisposing to the Metabolic Syndrome (Timothy M. Frayling, Kirsten J. Ward and Michael N. Weedon).

6. Atherothrombosis and the Metabolic Syndrome (Emma J. Dunn and Peter J. Grant).

7. Oxidative Stress, Insulin Resistance and Cardiovascular Disease (Antonio Ceriello).

8. Inflammation, Cardiovascular Disease and the Metabolic Syndrome (Dan Ziegler).

9. Adipocytokines and the Pathogenesis of the Metabolic Syndrome (Ulf Smith and Xiaolin Yang).

10. Peripheral Arterial Disease (Lorna Watson and Gerry F. Fowkes).

11. Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (Mohammed H. Ahmed and Christopher D. Byrne).

12. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (Naveed Sattar and Richard Fleming).

13. Nutrition: its Relevance in Development and Treatment of the Metabolic Syndrome (Jim Mann and Kirsten McAuley).

14. Growth Hormone, Exercise and Energy Expenditure in the Metabolic Syndrome (Cathy M. McHugh and Richard I.G. Holt).

15. Treatments for the Metabolic Syndrome (Markolf Hanefeld and Frank Schaper).

Summary

Christopher Byrne, a diabetologist and clinician scientist, and Sarah Wild, an epidemiologist and public health physician, have brought together a group of authors, all of whom are leading researchers in their field. The editors and chapter authors have each contributed chapters addressing hot topics relevant to the metabolic syndrome.

These state-of-the-art chapters range from aetiology to pathogenesis, complications and treatment, addressing subjects such as the developmental origins of the metabolic syndrome, oxidation, inflammation and exciting new areas such as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and adipocytokines.

This book will appeal to all researchers and clinicians requiring detailed up to date information on the metabolic syndrome to further their own research or to treat and manage the syndrome and its complications.

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