Parental Obesity: Intergenerational Programming and Consequences (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

In this book, leading figures in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease provide up-to-date information from human clinical trials, cohorts, and animal physiology experiments to reveal the interdependence between parental obesity and health of the offspring. Obesity of the mother and father produces obesity in their offspring, so we are caught up in an intergenerational cycle, which means that even our children's future health is in peril. This book gives a timely and much-needed synthesis of the mechanisms, potential targets of future interventions, and the challenges that need to be overcome in order to break the intergenerational cycle of obesity. This has profound implications for the way in which scientific, clinical and health policy activities are to be directed in order to combat the so-called epidemic of obesity, as well as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. The book will be of interest to students, clinicians, researchers and health policy makers who are either seeking an introduction to the area of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease or have a specific interest in the pathogenesis of obesity.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Physiology in Health and Disease
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Lucy R. Green • Robert L Hester
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	389
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-4939-6384-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Medical genetics Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Gynaecology & obstetrics > Materno-fetal medicine Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal physiology
LSN:	1-4939-6384-8
Barcode:	9781493963843

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