
Obesity: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 1e (Clinics Collections)
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Clinics Collections: Obesity draws from Elsevier's robust Clinics Review Articles database to provide multidisciplinary teams, including general practitioners, endocrinologists, pediatricians, gastroenterologists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, with practical clinical advice and insights on this highly prevalent disease and its comorbidities.
Clinics Collections: Obesity guides readers on how to apply current primary research findings on obesity to everyday practice to help overcome challenges and complications, keep up with new and improved treatment methods, and improve patient outcomes.
Areas of focus include obesity and secondary disorders, pediatric obesity, metabolic issues, dietary approaches, surgical options, and special considerations.
Each article begins with keywords and key points for immediate access to the most critical information.
Articles are presented in an easy-to-digest and concisely worded format.
Elsevier Clinics Collections provide concise reviews of today's most prevalent conditions and significant medical developments. Other Clinics Collections titles available include Type II Diabetes Mellitus, Asthma, and Pain Management.
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- Front Cover
- Obesity: A Multidisciplinary Approach
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Prevention and Management of Pediatric Obesity: A Multipronged, Community-Based Agenda
- INTRODUCTION
- SETTING
- STARTING RIGHT
- INITIATIVE COMPONENTS
- IMPLICATIONS
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 2. Pediatric Obesity and Asthma Quality of Life
- BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE
- REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
- STUDY BY THE AUTHOR
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 3. Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Obesity and Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents
- OVERVIEW
- PHARMACOTHERAPY FOR AN
- PHARMACOTHERAPY FOR BN
- PHARMACOTHERAPY FOR BINGE-EATING DISORDER
- PHARMACOTHERAPY FOR OBESITY
- COMORBIDITY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 4. Pediatric Obesity
- THE DISEASE OF OBESITY
- OBESITY: A PROBLEM FOR PATIENTS, PARENTS, HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS, AND SOCIETY
- OBESITY TREATMENT
- FACTORS IN EVALUATING WEIGHT LOSS PROCEDURES IN ADOLESCENTS
- DEVICES AND NEW PROCEDURES
- THE FDA AND BARIATRIC DEVICES
- SUGGESTED CLINICAL MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL FOR WEIGHT LOSS IN ADOLESCENTS AND CHILDREN
- ADOLESCENTS: SUGGESTED CLINICAL MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL FOR WEIGHT LOSS
- CHILDREN: GUIDELINES FOR DEVELOPING WEIGHT LOSS STRATEGIES
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 5. Childhood Obesity and the Media
- SCREEN TIME WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF OBESITY PREVENTION
- ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SCREEN TIME AND OBESITY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
- THE ROLE OF FOOD MARKETING IN CHILDHOOD OBESITY
- REDUCING MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHILDHOOD OBESITY
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 6. Obesity-Associated Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- INTRODUCTION
- PREVALENCE AND INCIDENCE OF OBESITY-ASSOCIATED NAFLD
- WORLDWIDE DIFFERENCES IN OBESITY-ASSOCIATED NAFLD
- CLINICAL CORRELATIONS
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 7. Obesity and GERD
- INTRODUCTION
- PREVALENCE/INCIDENCE
- WORLD-WIDE INCIDENCE RATES
- CLINICAL CORRELATION
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 8. Sleep Disorders and the Development of Insulin Resistance and Obesity
- METABOLIC CHANGES IN SLEEP
- THE METABOLIC EFFECTS OF SLEEP DURATION
- EFFECTS OF OSA ON INSULIN RESISTANCE AND OBESITY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 9. Asthma and Obesity: The Dose Effect
- ASTHMA
- OBESITY
- ASTHMA AND OBESITY
- DOSE EFFECT
- IMPLICATIONS
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 10. Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome and Anesthesia
- INTRODUCTION
- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
- DISTINGUISHING CLINICAL FEATURES
- MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY
- TREATMENT
- PREOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT OF PATIENTS WITH OHS
- INTRAOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF OHS
- POSTOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF OHS
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 11. Obesity and Diabetic KidneyDisease
- INTRODUCTION
- EPIDEMIOLOGY OF OBESITY AND DIABETES-RELATED KIDNEY DISEASE
- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF OBESITY AND DIABETES-RELATED KIDNEY DISEASE
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 12. Obesity and ReproductiveFunction
- MEASURING OBESITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RISK
- OBESITY'S REPRODUCTIVE TARGETS
- IMPROVING REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION IN OBESE WOMEN WITH SUBFERTILITY
- COMPETING RISKS IN THE SETTING OF INFERTILITY: OBESITY VERSUS AGE
- FERTILITY TREATMENT OF OBESE WOMEN
- THE NEED FOR TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND NOVEL APPROACHES
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 13. The Impact of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome on Chronic Hepatitis C
- INTRODUCTION
- DEFINITIONS
- HCV AND IR
- HCV AND STEATOSIS
- HCV AND OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE METABOLIC SYNDROME
- HCV AND THE METABOLIC SYNDROME: DOES IT MATTER?
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 14. The Insulin-Like Growth Factors in Adipogenesis and Obesity
- EXPERIMENTAL/IN VITRO EVIDENCE
- CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS
- OPEN QUESTIONS
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 15. Probiotics, Prebiotics, Energy Balance, and Obesity: Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Implications
- INTRODUCTION
- ASSOCIATION BETWEEN GUT MICROBIOTA AND OBESITY: PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS
- THE ROLE OF GUT MICROBIOTA IN HUMAN OBESITY
- THERAPEUTIC TARGETS
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 16. Surgical Management ofAdolescent Obesity
- INTRODUCTION
- DEFINITION
- COMORBIDITIES ASSOCIATED WITH MORBID OBESITY IN ADOLESCENTS
- GUIDELINES FOR SURGERY
- PROCEDURES AND OUTCOMES
- ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BAND
- SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY
- ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS
- POSTOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 17. Morbidity and Effectiveness of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy, Adjustable Gastric Band, and Gastric Bypass for Morbid Obesity
- OBESITY AS A SURGICAL DISEASE
- CONTEMPORARY SURGICAL OPTIONS
- QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN BARIATRIC SURGERY
- MORTALITY
- MORBIDITY
- COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS
- TOWARD OPTIMIZING OUTCOMES
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 18. The Potential Role of Sports Psychology in the Obesity Epidemic
- DEFINING SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY
- THE ROLE OF THE SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST
- SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST AND SPORTS PHYSICIAN PARTNERSHIP
- NEW AND EMERGING TRENDS IN SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY
- THE PROBLEM OF OBESITY
- THE PROBLEM OF OBESITY IN CHILDREN
- A ROLE FOR SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY IN OBESITY PREVENTION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 19. Effects of Obesity on Obstetric Ultrasound Imaging
- INTRODUCTION
- GENERAL APPROACH TO ULTRASOUND IN THE OBESE PATIENT
- SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- Back Cover
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