Endocrinology

This book is a quick-reference guide to osteoporosis that equips the reader with easy-to-follow guidelines for lifelong maintenance of skeletal structure and function, with an emphasis on the diagnosis, therapy and prevention of osteoporosis.

This no-nonsense, plain-English guide lays out the facts you need to maintain a healthy body.

Metabolic disorder caused by altered levels of metabolism resulting pathophysiological abnormalities often leads to childhood death.

Hormone Therapy: A Clinical Handbook provides a comprehensive overview on hormone replacement therapy, with a range of key features that differentiate it from other titles on the topic.

Diabetes: A Comprehensive Treatise for Patients and Care Givers is written with the intention of keeping readers abreast of the latest advancements, understanding, emerging trends, and technology in the field of diabetes.

Vitamins and Hormones serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters.

Exposure to chronic stress has cumulative adverse effects on physical and mental health, considered to be the consequence of chronic exposure to high levels of stress hormones.

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press.

In the past 10 years hirsutism has been the object of a considerable number of fundamental studies.

Vitamin D deficiency, circulating levels lower than 15 ng/ml, is an epidemic disease worldwide with  more than a billion people suffering of it in the beginning of the 21-century.

The term polycystic ovary syndrome (peOS) is meant to describe a clinical endocrinopathy characterized by menstrual irregularity and evidence of hyperandrogenism.

Comprised of cases presenting diverse clinical scenarios involving pituitary tumors and related conditions, this concise, practical casebook provides clinical endocrinologists with the best real-world strategies to properly diagnose and treat the various presentations and symptoms they may encounter in daily practice.

This book provides the ultrastructural study of the pituitary-gonadal axis through the electron microscope.

This book on neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) aims to present, in a clear and innovative manner, a broad topic that is still unevenly and in some respects poorly delineated.

The second volume of "e;Osteologia"e; - the proceedings of the annual meetings of the German Society for Osteology - differs from the first one in two ways.

Endocrine disruption represents one of the most controversial environmental issues of our time.

Biological sex and gender have a tremendous impact on the efficacy and safety of pharmacological interventions in virtually every disease state.

How to treat advanced prostatic cancer remains controversial, despite intense basic and clinical research investigating the pathogenesis and natural history of this unique cancer highly prevalent in elderly males.

As the title suggests, and unlike other existing books on sleep medicine, Neuroendocrine Correlates of Sleep/Wakefulness will be devoted primarily to endocrine regulation of the behavioral state control.

This 2001 book clearly illustrates and explains the acquisition, interpretation, and reporting of physiologic responses to exercise.

Learn to live a full and active life with type 2 diabetes Type 2 diabetes is Australia's fast-growing chronic disease, yet it can be prevented with the right diet and regular exercise.

Of all the complications which arise from diabetes, cardiovascular complications are by far the most prevalent and the most deadly.

This book provides a practical guide to the treatment of patients as risk from limb amputation.

This important reference, edited by Ronald Ross Watson and Betsy Dokken, collects the research needed to make the distinct connection between pre-diabetes, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

Experienced physicians concisely explain the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of endocrine disorders and survey all the latest laboratory diagnostics.

Endocrinology is perhaps, the only branch of medicine where stimulation and suppression testing are required as the initial step for biochemical confirmation of the clinical condition as hormone secretion is pulsatile.

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

It is no secret that the United States is facing an obesity epidemic with the obesity rates continuing to rise year after year.

Australian and New Zealand edition Number 1 bestseller with 100K copies sold in Australia and New ZealandTop 5 in nonfiction since its release in January 2016Number 1 bestselling nonfiction on iBooks for 2016 Dr Michael Mosley, author of the bestselling 5:2 Fast Diet, reveals a game-changing approach to one of the greatest silent epidemics of our time raised blood sugar levels.

This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with new information on the latest developments in the field, and the most up-to-date representative methodological information on molecular neuroanatomical and functional techniques that are currently used to study neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels in the brain.

Count your carbs and count on managing your diabetes Living with diabetes doesn't have to mean giving up all of your favorite foods.

Molecular Nutrition and Diabetes: A Volume in the Molecular Nutrition Series focuses on diabetes as a nutritional problem and its important metabolic consequences.

This is the first book to document comprehensively the 'state of the art' in the lifecourse epidemiology of osteoporosis.

Sleep Loss and Obesity: Intersecting Epidemics represents a major contribution to the field of sleep medicine.

This clinically oriented book will familiarize the reader with all aspects of the diagnosis of tumors and other disorders of the pituitary gland by means of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Nuclear Receptors focuses on the structural analysis of nuclear receptors from the initial work using isolated protein domains to the more recent exciting developments investigating the conformational shape of full-length receptor complexes.

Written by an esteemed list of international authors, this book presents timely reviews relating to some of the most important aspects of gestational diabetes, specifically its causes, consequences, and treatments.

The prevalence of obesity in the United States and the rest of the industrialized world has skyrocketed in the past 20 years.

Fundamentals of Brain and Behavior provides an accessible introduction to the study of human neuroscience.

This book covers interesting and yet often challenging cases among adult patients in a unique Question-Answer format.

This practical guide offers everything you need to know - what needs to be done, by whom, and by when.

Das Buch bietet eine zusammenfassende Darstellung der Indikationen und der Möglichkeiten der hochauflösenden Sonographie von Kopf und Hals, basierend auf jahrelanger Erfahrung.

The Organon Symposia have actually become a tradition, keeping up with exciting developments in reproductive medicine.