Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes Medical and Surgical Management
This book provides a concise, state-of-the art review of the surgical treatment of metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus. The volume reviews what current practices in surgery and metabolic syndrome and diabetes including the biohormonal effects o
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Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes
Marina Kurian • Bruce M. Wolfe Sayeed Ikramuddin Editors
Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes Medical and Surgical Management
Editors Marina Kurian Department of Surgery NYU School of Medicine New York, NY, USA
Bruce M. Wolfe Department of Surgery Oregon Health and Science University Portland, OR, USA
Sayeed Ikramuddin Department of Surgery University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA
ISBN 978-1-4939-3219-1 ISBN 978-1-4939-3220-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-3220-7
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Preface
A few years ago, I had the great pleasure of chairing a course with Dr. Bruce Wolfe on Metabolic Syndrome and its management. This was a well-attended course that provided clarity on what we as medical professionals are trying to achieve in this patient population. My coeditors, Dr. Sayeed Ikrammudin and Dr. Bruce Wolfe, presented the nascent biology of the disease and the cause of inflammation with such aplomb that the attendees were truly riveted by the material. There were several other presentations delivered by experts in bariatric surgery on the outcomes of weight loss surgery in metabolic syndrome. At the close of the course, Bruce and I were approached by Richard Hruska, editor at Springer, about creating a textbook based on the course. As we committed to the book, I wanted Sayeed to be a part of the project. For those of you who don’t know either Bruce or Sayeed, they are two of the most thoughtful and consummate scientists I know. Both have spent considerable time delving into disease etiology and incretin effect on diabetes and metabolic syndrome. With their help, we created a textbook that is a resource for all medical professiona
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