Fetal Metabolic Programming in Obesity and Diabetes
From Mechanisms to Preventive Therapy
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editor: Luis Sobrevia
- Language: English
Fetal Metabolic Programming in Obesity and Diabetes: From Mechanisms to Preventive Therapy describes the consequences of cellular and molecular aspects of maternal obesity (befor… Read more
Fetal Metabolic Programming in Obesity and Diabetes: From Mechanisms to Preventive Therapy describes the consequences of cellular and molecular aspects of maternal obesity (before and during pregnancy), diabetes mellitus (pregestational and gestational), and gestational diabesity (i.e., women with pre-pregnancy obesity that developed GDM). The book covers the clinical aspects of mothers and children and the protocols for treating these diseases during pregnancy. Since the patients' clinical information correlates with metabolic parameters at a cellular and systemic level, it covers several pieces of evidence, addressing the pathophysiology of obesity and diabetes in pregnancy.
This is an important resource for health professionals, researchers, and postdocs in obesity diabetes, as well as public health, physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, cell physiology, cell metabolism, and clinical medicine.
This is an important resource for health professionals, researchers, and postdocs in obesity diabetes, as well as public health, physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, cell physiology, cell metabolism, and clinical medicine.
- Includes definitions and clinical and basic science concepts of obesity and diabetes
- Presents approaches to new technologies and protocols to treat patients
- Describes the concept of programming human diseases and measures that need to be taken now and for future generations
- Includes information on metabolic foetal programming in obesity and diabetes
Health professionals (medics, nurses, medicine specialists in obesity and diabetes, midwifes, medical technologists), Researchers in public health, physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, cell physiology, cell metabolism, clinical medicine, Postdocs in physiology, cell physiology, metabolism, Undergraduate students in physiology, medicine, nurse, publica health, biology, biochemistry, Universities when preparing their specific courses in the curricula for physiology, medicine, biological sciences, and related areas
1. Beta cells and in uterus programming
2. Pre-pregnancy obesity and programming of child diseases
3. Modifiable perinatal influences on child obesity
4. Extracellular vesicles and programming of metabolic diseases
5. Obesity and diabetes programming
6. Obesity and sex programming
7. Nutrition in pregnancy and programming of gestational diabetes
8. Postpartum cardiometabolic risk and gestational diabetes mellitus
9. Developmental programming of obesity
10. Diabetes and programming
11. Perinatology
12. Epigenetics and programming
2. Pre-pregnancy obesity and programming of child diseases
3. Modifiable perinatal influences on child obesity
4. Extracellular vesicles and programming of metabolic diseases
5. Obesity and diabetes programming
6. Obesity and sex programming
7. Nutrition in pregnancy and programming of gestational diabetes
8. Postpartum cardiometabolic risk and gestational diabetes mellitus
9. Developmental programming of obesity
10. Diabetes and programming
11. Perinatology
12. Epigenetics and programming
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Luis Sobrevia
Luis Sobrevia, Director of the Cellular and Molecular Physiology Laboratory (CMPL) at PUC is a Fellow of The Physiological Society (UK) (FTPS), a Fellow of the Academy of Physiology of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (FIUPS), member of the Academy of Sciences of Latin-America (ACAL), Professor of Molecular Physiology and Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at PUC, Honorary Professor at University of Queensland (Australia), Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), and São Paulo State University (UNESP, Brazil), He is a Distinguished Research Professor at TecSalud, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), and Visiting Professor at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). He has 236 publications in reputed journals (Google h-index = 53, WoS h-index = 40), tutored 69 graduate theses and 20 postdoctoral (by Sep 26, 2022). His The research focus is altered fetoplacental vascular function in diseases of pregnancy, gestational diabesity, gestational diabetes mellitus, preeclampsia, and maternal obesity.
Affiliations and expertise
Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile