Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care (eBook)

Colin Waine, Nick Bosanquet (Autoren)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-75991-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Obesity is undoubtedly the major nutritional disorder of the western world. It has such a major impact on mortality, morbidity and the quality of life that it most certainly merits consideration as a disease in its own right and should be managed as such.

Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care covers all the evidence on the disease of obesity which impacts both quality of life and health. It reviews the links to long-term illness, especially diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and dedicates much to the current management strategies and treatment of obesity.

This book aims to make the task of tackling obesity less daunting for both patients and the health care professionals who treat them.

'This little volume reviews in an easy reading style the physiology and pathology of obesity as well as therapeutic approaches from dieting and drugs to surgery ... useful for students, residents, all health care professionals, as well as sufferers.' Journal of Paediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism

Inhalt

Obesity and weight management in primary care 1
Contents 7
Foreword 9
Preface 11
Acknowledgements 12
1 Introduction and overview 13
2 Epidemiology 17
3 Causes of obesity 23
4 The autocrine, paracrine and endocrine functions of adipose tissue 33
5 Obesity-a disease in its own right! 39
6 Beneficial effects of modest weight loss 53
7 Management in clinical practice: a patient orientated approach 59
8 Drug treatment in the management of obesity 75
9 The place of surgery in the management of obesity 93
10 The economic consequences of obesity 99
11 Prevention of obesity 103
12 Childhood obesity 107
Appendix 1: Healthy eating 113
Appendix 2: Characteristics of successful weight management programmes 116
Appendix 3: Facts on fat 118
Appendix 4: BMI charts 120
Appendix 5: The Milan Declaration 123
Index 125

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Endokrinologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Biochemie / Molekularbiologie
• Schlagworte: Care • certainly • Consideration • Current • Diabetes • Disease • disorder • endocrinology • Endokrinologie • Evidence • Illness • LESS • Life • Links • longterm • Major • major impact • Medical Science • Medizin • merits • Morbidity • nutritional • Obesity • quality • Treatment • Western • World
• ISBN-10: 0-470-75991-7 / 0470759917
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-75991-2 / 9780470759912