Weight, nutrition and hormonal events in women
By: edited by Arnaud Basdevant, Jacques Bringer and Patrick Lefebvre.
Contributors: Basdevant, Arnaud.; Bringer, Jacques.; Lefebvre, Patrick.
Series: Human reproduction -- volume 12, Supplement 1, October 1997; Human reproduction (Oxford, England) -- vol. 12, suppl. 1.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Body Weight -- congresses.; Hormones -- metabolism -- congresses.; Obesity -- Endocrine aspects -- Congresses.; Women -- Nutrition -- Congresses.; Women -- Physiology -- Congresses.; Women's health -- Congresses.
Notes: "... originated in a large part from the edited proceedings of a conference with the same title, which was held in Montpellier, France, as a satellite symposium of the 15th Congress of the International Federation of Fertility Societies, September 1995, updated to cover subsequent developments."--pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Genetic determinants of regional fat distribution; value: Adrenergic regulation of adipocyte metabolism; value: Hormonal regulation of fat distribution; value: Obesity and reproduction; value: Involvement of insulin-like growth factors in the interactions between nutrition and reproduction in female mammals; value: Insulin regulation of human ovarian androgens; value: Perspective in the treatment of insulin resistance; value: Influences of weight, body fat patterning and nutrition on the management of PCOS; value: Weight control and its beneficial effect of fertility in women with obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome; value: Choice of stimulation in polycystic ovary syndrome: the influence of obesity; value: Deficiency of energy balance and ovulatory disorders; value: Weight gain in pregnancy; value: Obesity and breast cancer risk; value: Weight gain at the time of menopause; value: Weight gain and cardiovascular risk factors in the post-menopausal woman.