This book addresses the current issues about, and treatments for, the
metabolic syndrome and its components, specifically obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Cross-sectional surveys indicate
that one third of adults and an alarming proportion of children in
the United States have the metabolic syndrome, which also represents a global public health problem.
In 1988 Gerald Reaven first delivered his Banting lecture, “The
Role of Insulin Resistance in Human Disease,” and the following
year Harold Himsworth delivered the Goulstonian lecture,
“Mechanisms of Diabetes,” to the Royal College of Physicians in
London. Since then, an abundance of research has been conducted in the pathophysiology, epidemiology, and therapeutic
strategies of the metabolic syndrome. Yet today there is no other
topic in medicine that has provoked as much discussion as this
syndrome; its precise cause has been debated, and even its very
existence and usefulness has been challenged. These issues are
addressed with sensitivity in this book. Whether it is called the
metabolic syndrome (Scott Grundy), the insulin resistance syndrome (Reaven), or an “emperor without clothes” (Richard Kahn),
it appears to be a simple syndrome in its clinical approach but it
still remains a defiant problem.
Download here: The Metabolic Syndrome in Clinical Practice
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