Main description:

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.

Contents:

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 Prospective Study among Japanese with Obesity. Bariatric Surgery: The Challenges with Candidate Selection, Individualizing Treatment and Clinical Outcomes. Index.