TY - BOOK AU - Felber,Jean-Pierre AU - Acheson,Kevin J. AU - Tappy,Luc TI - From obesity to diabetes. SN - 0471927651 (cloth) : AV - RC660.F45 U1 - 616.4/62071 20 PY - 1993/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, England, New York PB - Wiley KW - Non-insulin-dependent diabetes KW - Risk factors KW - Obesity KW - Complications KW - Etiology KW - Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin Dependent KW - etiology KW - physiopathology KW - Glucose KW - metabolism KW - Insulin KW - complications N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Epidemiological aspects -- Methods for the study of human metabolism in viro -- Insulin secretion -- Insulin resistance -- Energy metabolism -- Endogenous glucose production in obesity and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus -- Obesity and lipid metabolism -- Obesity and carbohydrate metabolism -- Obesity and diabetes -- Evolution from obesity to diabetes -- Protein metabolism --Associated cardiovascular morbidity -- Prevention and therapeutics (A) physiopathological considerations in relation to the evolution of obesity towards diabetes -- Prevention and therapeutics (B) epidemiological and public health considerations -- Time: duration of evolution, succession of events, and alterance of synthesis and mobilization of substrates and hormones -- ER -