The various types and treatments for obesity
By: Igor Harsch, editor.
Contributors: Harsch, Igor.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Obesity; Obesity -- therapy; Obesity -- etiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Definition and assessment of obesity / K. Wagner, U. Trippo; title: Benign symmetric lipomatosis-launois bensaude syndrome / R. Wiedman, I. A. Harsch; title: Leptin deficiency / Tanja Bergmann, I. A. Harsch; title: Prader-Willy syndrome / A. Del Parigi, P. A. Tataranni; title: Bardet-Biedl syndrome / Silvia Iannello, Francesco Belfiore; title: Alstrom syndrome / Pietro Maffei ... [et al.]; title: The pro-opiomelanocortin gene in body weight regulation and obesity / Heiko Krude; title: Obesity caused by psychopharmacotherapy / Thomas Kraus, Anja Schanze, Ulrich Zimmermann; title: Endocrine disorders and obesity: why do patients become obese? / Christian Seifarth; title: Regulation of food intake: mechanisms and pathomechanisms / Peter C. Konturek, S.J. Konturek; title: Recent studies on the prevention of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus: what can we do? / Henri Wallaschofski; title: Surgical treatment of obesity / Krystyna W. Zwirska-Korczala, Mariusz Wylezo; title: Medical treatment of obesity / Javier Salvador, Javier Gomez-Ambrosi, Gema Frühbeck; title: Dietary treatment of obesity and the role of exercise / Ada L. Garcia, Antje Hoehne, Corinna Koebnick.