Table of Contents:
  • Changing epidemiology of obesity: implications for diabetes / Jonathan Webber
  • The genetics of human obesity / Victor J. Lawrence
  • Lifestyle determinants of obesity / Susan A. Jebb and Jeremy Krebs
  • Pathogenesis of obesity-related type 2 diabetes / Phillip McTernan and Sudhesh Kumar
  • Obesity and prevention of type 2 diabetes / Jaakko Tuomilehto, Jaana Lindström and Karri Silventoinen
  • Diet and food-based therapies for obesity in diabetic patients / Iain Broom
  • Behavioural modification in the treatment of obesity / Brent Van Dorsten
  • Physical activity, obesity and type 2 diabetes / Carlton B. Cooke and Paul J. Gately.
  • Diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease: therapeutic implications / Jayadave Shakher and Anthony H. Barnett
  • Drug therapy for the obese diabetic patient / John P.H. Wilding
  • The role of bariatric surgery in the management of type 2 diabetes / David D. Kerrigan, James Evans and John Pinkney
  • Childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes / Krystyna A. Matyka and Timothy Barrett
  • Obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome / Diana Raskauskiene and Richard N. Clayton
  • Management of diabesity in primary care: a multidisciplinary approach / Ian W. Campbell.