Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes (Nutrition and Health)

About this book

Obesity and diabetes mellitus continue to affect an ever increasing number of children, adolescents, and young adults. The objective of this book is to provide healthcare trainees and professionals with practical, comprehensive, and contemporary approaches to the pediatric patient at risk for obesity, diabetes mellitus, and related conditions.

This book provides the reader clinical paradigms for diagnosis and management of pediatric obesity and diabetes. In addition, the book succinctly describes state-of-the-art basic and clinical sciences underlying hunger and satiety. The intended market is pediatricians, dieticians, endocrinologists and diabetologists. This book can also be utilized to teach dietary, nursing, graduate, medical, dental, and allied health trainees about these ever-increasing problems in pediatric populations. This work will benefit the reader by collecting disseminated knowledge in a convenient place. Above all, we hope this work improves healthcare for all children and young adults.

Written for:

General pediatricians, dieticians, endocrinologists, diabetologists, family practitioners.

Keywords:

• Diabetes Mellitus
• Obesity
• Satiety

Table of contents

• 1 Introduction
  Robert J. Ferry, Jr.

I Definitions of obesity and diabetes mellitus in pediatrics

• 2 Growth patterns in pediatric populations
  Robert J. Ferry, Jr.
• 3 Fetal origins of adult disease
  Natalia Schlabritz-Loutsevitch
• 4 Mechanisms underlying satiety and hunger
• 5 Genetics of obesity

II Clinical Assessments of Pediatric Populations

• 6 Dietary assessments of families & food marketing impact: ambulatory and hospitalized patients..
• 7 Clinical assessments of insulin action
• 8 Exercise physiology: pedometers and other approaches in pediatrics

III Nutrient Bioavailability

• 9 Dietary supplements and alternative practices (low carb, high protein, vegan, organic)
• 10 Lifestyle impacts on nutrition: smoking, alcohol, and illicit drugs

IV Obesity in Infants, Children and Adolescents

• 11 Prevention of obesity in pediatric populations world-wide
  Roberto Trevi–o
• 12 Variations in obesity across ethnic groups
• 13 Behavioral approaches to obesity in children
• 14 Pharmacological approaches to obesity and diabetes mellitus in children
• 15 Surgical approaches to obesity in pediatrics
• 16 Polycystic ovary syndrome in pediatrics
• 17 Type 2 diabetes mellitus in children, adolescents and young adults: management and emerging technologies
• 18 Hypertension and cardiovascular disease in obese children
• 19 Rare pediatric conditions associated with obesity and diabetes mellitus
  Prader-Willi syndrome, diencephalic syndrome, hypercortisolism (Cushing’s syndrome), Wolfram’s syndrome, etc.