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Christopher Byrne, a diabetologist and clinician scientist, and Sarah Wild, an epidemiologist and public health physician, have brought together a group of authors, all of whom are leading researchers in their field. The editors and chapter authors have each contributed chapters addressing 'hot topics' relevant to the metabolic syndrome. These state-of-the-art chapters range from aetiology to pathogenesis, complications and treatment, addressing subjects such as the developmental origins of the metabolic syndrome, oxidation, inflammation and exciting new areas such as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and adipocytokines. This book will appeal to all researchers and clinicians requiring detailed up to date information on the metabolic syndrome to further their own research or to treat and manage the syndrome and its complications.

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...an excellent resource for clinical researchers and epidemiologists... (Clinical Chemistry, June 2007) This is a well written, current review of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and consequences of the metabolic syndrome. (Doody's Health Services) 'The Metabolic Syndrome' is an excellent collection of updated reviews, and it provides a valuable background for understanding many aspects of this fascinating cluster of risk factors... excellent collection of updated reviews ... provides a valuable background for understanding many aspects of this fascinating cluster of risk factors. (New England Journal of Medicine, June 22, 2006) Byrne and Wild bring together leading researchers in the field to address the latest work ... (SciTech Book News, December 2005).

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Christopher Byrne trained as a physician and clinical scientist at Cardiff, Cambridge and Stanford Universities. After Medical Research Council clinical science fellowships he was appointed Professor of Endocrinology & Metabolism at Southampton University Hospitals Trust, UK. He is an academic diabetologist with clinical and molecular research interests in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome, and the mechanisms linking metabolic syndrome with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. His publications span a range of disciplines from epidemiological to gene expression studies. Sarah Wild trained in medicine in London and Cambridge and subsequently received training in epidemiology at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is currently senior lecturer in epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include the global burden of diabetes and metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular epidemiology.

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