Obesity: Science to Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470019115 ISBN 13: 9780470019115

Publisher: Wiley, 2009

Synopsis

This comprehensive textbook addresses one of the major public health concerns of our era – obesity. Clearly and simply, Obesity: science to practice provides a balanced, coherent account of obesity: how to define and measure it, its epidemiology, the physiological basis, associated diseases, how to assess, manage and treat it, and also strategies for prevention. The book is generously illustrated, including graphs and flow charts for easy reference. The chapters cite key references so that interested readers may pursue a given topic in more detail. Well presented and thoroughly edited by one of the leading experts in the field, this is the textbook of choice for anyone working in obesity.

About this title

About the Author

Gareth Williams, MD, ScD FRCP Edin, Professor of Medicine, University of Bristol, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK.

Gema Fruhbeck, Department of Endocrinology, Clinica Universitaria and Metabolic Research Laboratory, University of Navarra, Spain.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470019115
• ISBN 13: 9780470019115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 604
• Editor: Fruhbeck Gema, Williams Gareth