Fetal Metabolic Programming in Obesity and Diabetes
From Mechanisms to Preventive Therapy
- 1st Edition - April 1, 2027
- 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 (b… Read more
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Description
Description
Key features
Key features
- 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
Readership
Readership
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
Table of contents
Table of contents
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
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: April 1, 2027
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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Luis Sobrevia
Dr. Luis Sobrevia is Professor of Molecular Physiology and Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (Australia), Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), and São Paulo State University (UNESP, Brazil). He directs the Cellular and Molecular Physiology Laboratory at PUC and its branch at the Faculty of Medicine, UNESP. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Fellow of The Physiological Society-UK, Fellow of the Academy of Physiology of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS), and an elected member of the Academy of Sciences of Latin America. He serves as Editor-in-Chief, Executive Editor, Associate Editor, or editorial board member for several scientific and medical journals, as IUPS Representative to the Americas and member of its Cardiovascular and Respiratory Council Commission, and as co-Chair of the Liaison Committee of the Regional Focal Point for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Science Council. His research addresses altered fetoplacental vascular function in pregnancy-related diseases, including gestational diabesity, gestational diabetes mellitus, preeclampsia, and maternal obesity.