Obesity Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment: A Multidisciplinary Approach [Hardcover]

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

The book provides a comprehensive perspective on the subject of obesity epidemiology, pathophysiology, and management of obesity. The chapters provide a better understanding of obesity and obesity-related diseases and offer an integrative framework for individualized dietary and exercise programs, behavior modification, pharmaceutical approaches, surgery, and population interventions to reduce the growing epidemic of obesity.

Introduction. Population Trends and Variation in Body Mass Index from 1971 to 2008 in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort. Community Energy Balance: A Framework for Contextualizing Cultural Influences on High Risk of Obesity in Ethnic Minority Populations. A Genome-Wide Association Study on Obesity and Obesity-Related Traits. Differences between Adiposity Indicators for Predicting All-Cause Mortality in a Representative Sample of United States Non-Elderly Adults. A New Body Shape Index Predicts Mortality Hazard Independently of Body Mass Index. Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Obesity Phenotypes in the General Population: The FIN-D2D Survey. Liver and Muscle in Morbid Obesity: The Interplay of Fatty Liver and Insulin Resistance. Sarcopenia Exacerbates Obesity-Associated Insulin Resistance and Dysglycemia: Findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III. Prevalence of Obesity and Associated Cardiovascular Risk: The DARIOS Study. Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is a Predictor of Abnormal Glucose Metabolism in Chronically Sleep Deprived Obese Adults. Cluster Analysis of Obesity and Asthma Phenotypes. Diet, Physical Exercise and Cognitive Behavioral Training as a Combined Workplace Based Intervention to Reduce Body Weight and Increase Physical Capacity in Health Care Workers: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Reduction in Adiposity, ?-Cell Function, Insulin Sensitivity, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Pl#