• Epidemiology
• 37 min
  1. Assessment of obesity and classification of patients: historical perspectives and current practice

  • Prof. George Bray
• 40 min
  2. Epidemiology of obesity

  • Prof. Jacob Seidell
• Etiology and Causes
• 59 min
  3. Metabolic, adipose tissue and muscle predictors of obesity

  • Prof. Ian Macdonald
• 41 min
  4. Neural control of food intake and energy balance

  • Prof. Hans-Rudolf Berthoud
• 64 min
  5. Understanding obesity: genes and environment in the determination of body weight

  • Prof. Rudy Leibel
• 47 min
  6. Dietary determinants of obesity

  • Prof. Arne Astrup
• 42 min
  7. Physical inactivity as a determinant of obesity

  • Prof. Wim Saris
• 42 min
  8. Environmental causes of obesity: sociocultural, built environment and economic factors

  • Prof. Shiriki Kumanyika
• 29 min
  9. The developmental origins of obesity

  • Prof. David Barker
• Consequences of Obesity
• 46 min
  10. Obesity, dyslipoproteinemia and inflammation

  • Prof. Robert Eckel
• 23 min
  11. Pathophysiology and management of obesity related hypertension

  • Prof. Arya Sharma
• 22 min
  12. Disorders of overeating

  • Prof. Albert Stunkard
• 20 min
  13. Obesity, weight loss and health-related quality of life

  • Prof. Aila Rissanen
  • Dr. Jarmo Kaukua
• Treatment Options
• 44 min
  14. Lifestyle modification for weight control

  • Prof. Thomas Wadden
• 34 min
  15. Bariatric / obesity surgery

  • Prof. Henry Buchwald
• 48 min
  16. Can obesity be prevented in the current obesogenic environment?

  • Prof. Boyd Swinburn
• 28 min
  17. Pharmacotherapy for obesity: why it is needed

  • Prof. Joe Proietto
• 35 min
  18. Pharmacotherapy for obesity: hunger suppressors

  • Prof. Joe Proietto
• Latest Developments in the Field
• 60 min
  19. Body composition

  • Dr. Steven Heymsfield
• 56 min
  20. Adipose tissue metabolism and obesity

  • Dr. Max Lafontan
• 25 min
  21. Obesity, present and future therapies

  • Prof. Sir Stephen Bloom
• 42 min
  22. Energy expenditure in the lean and obese

  • Prof. Dale Schoeller
• 33 min
  23. Obesity and adiponectin

  • Prof. Philipp Scherer
• 44 min
  24. Ectopic fat: causes, consequences and treatment

  • Prof. Steven Smith
• 47 min
  25. Adipose-immune interactions in obesity

  • Dr. Vishwa Dixit
• 39 min
  26. Health benefits of intentional weight loss

  • Prof. Xavier Pi-Sunyer
• 39 min
  27. Childhood obesity: implications for current and future health

  • Prof. Peter T. Katzmarzyk
• 46 min
  28. The clinical assessment and management of child and adolescent obesity

  • Prof. Louise Baur
• Archived Lectures - These lectures may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 41 min
  29. Gastrointestinal peptides and food intake regulation

  • Prof. Sir Stephen Bloom
• 48 min
  30. Obesity and mortality: questions and controversy

  • Prof. David Allison
• 37 min
  31. Obesity, diabetes and the cluster of the metabolic syndrome

  • Prof. Peter Wilson
• 44 min
  32. New standards in weight management: recent and future drugs for the treatment of obesity

  • Prof. Luc Van Gaal
• 46 min
  33. Health economics of obesity: new insights

  • Dr. Anne Wolf
• 34 min
  34. Bariatric surgery: techniques and mechanisms of action

  • Prof. Walter Pories
• 39 min
  35. Childhood obesity: implications for future health

  • Prof. Peter T. Katzmarzyk
• 14 min
  36. Pharmacotherapy for obesity 1 - the need for pharmacotherapy in weight management

  • Prof. Joe Proietto
• 46 min
  37. Pharmacotherapy for obesity 2 - pharmacological agents in current use & under development

  • Prof. Joe Proietto

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1. Introduction
2. Growth in childhood of those who became obese
3. Change in BMI in children born to diabetic mothers
4. Mortality from coronary heart disease
5. Cumulative incidence of hypertension
6. OR - impaired glucose tolerance & type 2 diabetes
7. Associations between early growth & later disease
8. Both genes and environment affect individuals
9. Lacerta vivipara
10. The baby is molded by its surroundings
11. Developmental plasticity
12. The fetal origins hypothesis
13. Old and new models of disease development
14. Mean fasting insulin concentration
15. Undernourishment leads to diseases in adulthood
16. Lower rate of CHD in undernourished children
17. Mean HDL cholesterol concentrations
18. Hazard ratios for coronary heart disease
19. Acquiring knowledge of individual history
20. Childhood obesity - a form of malnutrition
21. Linking early growth with later disease
22. Mean z scores for length, weight & BMI - boys
23. Mean z scores for length, weight & BMI - girls
24. Hazard ratios for coronary heart disease by BMI
25. Measures of insulin resistance
26. Measures of insulin resistance (adjusted for BM) I
27. Measures of insulin resistance (adjusted for BM) II
28. Age at adiposity rebound in 8760 children
29. Cumulative incidence (%) of type 2 diabetes
30. Strength of effects of early growth on later disease
31. Growth of children who later develop stroke
32. Low birth weight - rapid weight gain
33. Undernutrition in critical phases of development
34. Study on pre-pregnancy nutrition of mothers
35. Beijing study: thin mother's insulin resistant fetus
36. Pregnancy and perinatology board strategic plan
37. The cycle of inequality

Topics Covered

• Associations between early growth and later disease
• The supply of nutrients to a baby has important long term effects
• Developmental plasticity
• The Fetal Origins Hypothesis
• Childhood growth
• Adiposity rebound
• The effects of the physical and social environments cannot be understood without knowledge of individual history
• The cycle of inequality

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Series:

• Obesity

Categories:

• Metabolism & Nutrition

Therapeutic Areas:

• Cardiovascular & Metabolic

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. David Barker has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.