Includes bibliographical references and index.

The metabolic syndrome defined / Neil J. Stone and Jennifer Berliner -- The metabolic syndrome: the question of balance between the pro-inflammatory effect of macronutrients and the anti-inflammatory effect of insulin / Paresh Dandona ... [et al.] -- The role of oxidative stress in diseases associated with overweight and obesity / Ginger L. Milne ... [et al.] -- Metabolic syndrome due to early life nutritional modifications / Malathi Srinivasan, Paul Mitrani, and Mulchand S. Patel -- Oxidative stress and antioxidants in the perinatal period / Hiromichi Shoji, Yuichiro Yamashiro, and Berthold Koletzko -- Maternal obesity, glucose intolerance, and inflammation in pregnancy / Janet C. King -- Obesity, nutrigenomics, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes / David Heber -- Post-prandial endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and inflammation in type 2 diabetes / Antonio Ceriello -- Obesity and inflammation: implications for atherosclerosis / John Alan Farmer -- Oligomeric composition of adiponectin and obesity / T. Bobbert and Joachim Spranger -- Insulin-stimulated reactive oxygen species and insulin signal transduction / Barry J. Goldstein, Kalyankar Mahadev, and Xiangdong Wu --

Intracellular signaling pathways and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors in vascular health in hypertension and in diabetes / Farhad Amiri, Karim Benkirane, and Ernesto L. Schiffrin -- Role of uncoupling protein 2 in pancreatic [beta]-cell function: secretion and survival / Jingyu Diao, Catherine B. Chan, and Michael B. Wheeler -- Nutritional modulation of inflammation in metabolic syndrome / Uma Singh, Sridevi Devaraj, and Ishwarlal Jialal -- Dietary fatty acids and metabolic syndrome / Helen M. Roche -- Lipid-induced death of macrophages: implication for destabilization of atherosclerotic plaques / Oren Tirosh and Anna Aronis -- [Alpha]-lipoic acid prevents diabetes mellitis and endothelial dysfunction in diabetes-prone obese rats / Woo Je Lee, Ki-Up Lee, and Joong-Yeol Park -- Lipoic acid blocks obesity by reduced food intake, enhanced energy expenditure, and inhibited adipocyte differentiation / Jong-Min Park and An-Sik Chung -- Effects of conjugated linoleic acid and lipoic acid on insulin action in insulin-resistant obese Zucker rats / Erik J. Henriksen -- Trivalent chromium supplementation inhibits oxidative stress, protein glycosylation, and vascular inflammation in high glucose-exposed human erythrocytes and monocytes / Sushil K. Jain.