Obesity Before Birth

From the contents:
Preface
Obesity: nature or nurture?
The contribution of heredity to clinical obesity
Monogenetic disorders within the energy balance pathway
Ciliary syndromes and obesity
Genome-wide association studies and human population obesity
Known clinical epigenetic disorders with an obesity phenotype: Prader-Willi Syndrome and the GNAS locus
Evidence for epigenetic changes as a cause of clinical obesity
Epigenetic changes associated with intrauterine growth retardation and adipogenesis
Exposure to diabetes in utero, offspring growth, and risk for obesity
Maternal weight gain during pregnancy and obesity in the offspring
Intrauterine growth restriction, small for gestational age, and experimental obesity
Experimental models of maternal obesity and high-fat diet during pregnancy and programmed obesity in the offspring
High carbohydrate intake only during the suckling period results in adult-onset obesity in mother as well as offspring
Prenatal stress, glucocorticoids, and the metabolic syndrome
Hypothalamic maldevelopment and developmental programming
Adipocyte development and experimental obesity
The obesogen hypothesis of obesity: overview and human evidence
Perinatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals with estrogenic activity and the development of obesity
The role of environmental obesogens in the obesity epidemic.

From the reviews:

"An interesting and timely book. ... For obstetricians, neonatologists and pediatricians in general. Recommended." -- Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), Vol. 9 (2), December, 2011

From the reviews:

"An interesting and timely book. ... For obstetricians, neonatologists and pediatricians in general. Recommended." (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), Vol. 9 (2), December, 2011)