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Abdominal Obesity and the Endocannabinoid System

From Basic Aspects to Clinical Management of Related Cardiometabolic Risk

All Categories > Medicine > Clinical Science > Endocrinology

Authors: Jean-Pierre Despres, Vincenzo Di Marzo
  • ISBN: 9781420060843
  • Price: LE 260.00
  • Special Offer Price: LE 208.00
  • Number Of Pages: 264
  • Edition: 1 Edition
  • Publication Date: 2008
  • Categories Endocrinology  
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This internationally renowned author team provides a unique and thorough analysis and distillation of the endocannabinoid system and its relationship to abdominal obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The endocannabinoid system (ECS) plays an important role in cardiometabolic risk, as well as modulating energy balance, feeding behavior, hepatic lipogenesis, and perhaps glucose homeostasis. Evidence suggests that the ECS is overactive in human obesity and dyslipidemia.

Critical to the management of cardiometabolic risk, this new, timely book provides practical overviews and management guidance on many important topics, including:

abdominal obesity and the metabolic syndrome

the endocannabinoid system and energy balance: functions and dysfunctions

abdominal obesity, the EC system, and cardiometabolic risk.