Includes bibliographical references and index.

The global burden of the metabolic syndrome and its consequences for diabetes and cardiovascular disease / Sarah H. Wild, Christopher D. Byrne -- Ethnicity and the metabolic syndrome / Nita G. Forouhi -- Developmental origins of vascular dysfunction and disease / Simon Cunningham, Mark Hanson -- Developmental origins of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes / Roselle L. Cripps, Susan E. Ozanne -- Recent progress in the identification of genes predisposing to the metabolic syndrome / Timothy M. Frayling, Kirsten J. Ward, Michael N. Weedon -- Atherothrombosis and the metabolic syndrome / Emma J. Dunn, Peter J. Grant -- Oxidative stress, insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease / Antonio Ceriello -- Inflammation, cardiovascular disease and the metabolic syndrome / Dan Ziegler -- Adipocytokines and the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome / Ulf Smith, Xiaolin Yang -- Peripheral arterial disease / Lorna Watson, Gerry Fowkes -- Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis / Mohamed Hassan Ahmed, Christopher D. Byrne -- Polycystic ovary syndrome / Naveed Sattar, Richard Fleming -- Nutrition : its relevance in development and treatment of the metabolic syndrome / Jim Mann, Kirsten McAuley -- Growth hormone, exercise and energy expenditure in the metabolic syndrome / Cathy M. McHugh, Richard I.G. Holt -- Treatments for the metabolic syndrome / Markolf Hanefeld, Frank Schaper.