From obesity to diabetes. / Jean-Pierre Felber, Kevin J. Acheson, Luc Tappy.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, England ; New York : Wiley, 1993Description: viii, 302 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: 0471927651 (cloth) :Subject(s): Non-insulin-dependent diabetes -- Risk factors | Obesity -- Complications | Non-insulin-dependent diabetes -- Etiology | Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin Dependent -- etiology | Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin Dependent -- physiopathology | Glucose -- metabolism | Insulin -- metabolism | Obesity -- complications | Obesity -- physiopathologyDDC classification: 616.4/62071 LOC classification: RC660.F45Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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 --
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