Insulin Resistance Childhood Precursors and Adult Disease /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zeitler, Philip Scott (Editor), Nadeau, Kristen J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Series: Contemporary Endocrinology
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Diabetes.; Endocrinology.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

The prevalence of disorders related to insulin resistance has continued to increase throughout the developed and developing world. The world’s population has continued to become more obese and sedentary. Of great concern in the last decade is the extension of these deleterious lifestyle patterns to...