Pharmacotherapy of Obesity

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Wilding, John P. H. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Σειρά: Milestones in Drug Therapy
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Pharmacology.; Cardiology.; Diabetes.; Metabolic diseases.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Metabolic Diseases.; Cell Biology.

Obesity has become a major epidemic that now rivals smoking as a risk to public health. The ensuing epidemics of diabetes, vascular disease and other complications are set to overwhelm the healthcare systems of wealthy and poorer nations alike. The need for effective pharmacotherapy has never been g...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Why drugs?
• Some historical aspects of drug treatment for obesity
• Regulation of energy balance — towards rational drug design in obesity
• Intestinal lipase inhibitors
• Sibutramine
• The endocannabinoid system as a target for obesity treatment
• Using the body’s natural signals — gut hormones
• Influencing energy expenditure and substrate utilisation.