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Obesity Before Birth

Maternal and prenatal influences on the offspring

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Robert H Lustig

    1. Director, Weight Assessment for Teen and, Division of Endocrinology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

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  • This information will contribute to resolving the nature-nurture controversy
  • This information provides guidance to clinical practitioners involved in both prenatal and postnatal care
  • This volume further stimulates research into underlying mechanisms and prevention and treatment of this phenomenon
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Endocrine Updates (ENDO, volume 30)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Genetic Disorders Leading to Obesity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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  3. Obesity: Nature or Nurture?

    1. Obesity: Nature or Nurture?

      • Robert H. Lustig
      Pages 1-22

  4. Genetic disorders leading to obesity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. The Contribution of Heredity to Clinical Obesity

      • Johanna C. Andersson, Andrew J. Walley
      Pages 25-52

    3. Monogenic Disorders Within the Energy Balance Pathway

      • Ivy R. Aslan, Sayali A. Ranadive, Christian Vaisse
      Pages 53-69

    4. Ciliary Syndromes and Obesity

      • David S. Parker, Nicholas Katsanis
      Pages 71-93

    5. Genome-Wide Association Studies and Human Population Obesity

      • Ruth J.F. Loos, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen
      Pages 95-112

  5. Epigenetic changes and the development of obesity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Known Clinical Epigenetic Disorders with an Obesity Phenotype: Prader–Willi Syndrome and the GNAS Locus

      • Merlin G. Butler
      Pages 115-145

    3. Evidence for Epigenetic Changes as a Cause of Clinical Obesity

      • Graham C. Burdge, Karen A. Lillycrop
      Pages 147-166

    4. Epigenetic Changes Associated with Intrauterine Growth Retardation and Adipogenesis

      • Sara E. Pinney, Rebecca A. Simmons
      Pages 167-189

  6. Developmental programming and the development of obesity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Exposure to Diabetes In Utero, Offspring Growth, and Risk for Obesity

      • Tessa Crume, Dana Dabelea
      Pages 193-204

    3. Maternal Weight Gain During Pregnancy and Obesity in the Offspring

      • Naomi E. Stotland, Janet C. King
      Pages 205-214

    4. Intrauterine Growth Restriction, Small for Gestational Age, and Experimental Obesity

      • Michael G. Ross, Ivan Huber, Mina Desai
      Pages 215-239

    5. Experimental Models of Maternal Obesity and High-Fat Diet During Pregnancy and Programmed Obesity in the Offspring

      • Larissa Jane Prior, Geoffrey Albert Head, James Andrew Armitage
      Pages 241-259

    6. High-Carbohydrate Intake Only During the Suckling Period Results in Adult-Onset Obesity in Mother as well as Offspring

      • Mulchand S. Patel, Malathi Srinivasan
      Pages 261-277

    7. Prenatal Stress, Glucocorticoids, and the Metabolic Syndrome

      • Amanda J. Drake, Jonathan R. Seckl
      Pages 279-300

    8. Hypothalamic Fetal Programming of Energy Homeostasis

      • Clement C. Cheung, Holly A. Ingraham
      Pages 301-319
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About this book

This volume will explore the epidemiology and the basic mechanisms of each of these prenatal phenomena, in an attempt to explain the role of the prenatal environment in promoting postnatal weight gain. This information will contribute to resolving the nature-nurture controversy. This information provides guidance to clinical practitioners involved in both prenatal and postnatal care. This volume further stimulates research into underlying mechanisms and prevention and treatment of this phenomenon.

Reviews

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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Director, Weight Assessment for Teen and, Division of Endocrinology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

    Robert H Lustig

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Obesity Before Birth

  • Book Subtitle: Maternal and prenatal influences on the offspring

  • Editors: Robert H Lustig

  • Series Title: Endocrine Updates

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7034-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7033-6Published: 24 September 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2686-8Published: 05 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7034-3Published: 23 September 2010

  • Series ISSN: 1566-0729

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 414

  • Topics: Endocrinology, Human Genetics, Food Science

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