TY  - CHAP
AU  - Robert A. Branch
AU  - Ann Chester
AU  - Cathy Morton-McSwain
AU  - Soleh Udin Al Ayubi
AU  - Kavitha Bhat Schelbert
AU  - Philip Brimson
AU  - Shama Buch
AU  - Yvonne Cannon
AU  - Steve Groark
AU  - Sara Hanks
AU  - Tomoko Nukui
AU  - Petr Pancoska
AU  - Bambang Parmanto
AU  - Stephanie Paulsen
AU  - Elaine Wahl
ED  - Mark B. Zimering
Y1  - 2011-11-04
PY  - 2011
T1  - A Novel Approach to Adolescent Obesity in Rural Appalachia of West Virginia: Educating Adolescents as Family Health Coaches and Research Investigators
N2  - Type 2 diabetes is estimated to affect 120 million people worldwide- and according to projections from the World Health Organization this number is expected to double over the next two decades. Novel, cost-effective strategies are needed to reverse the global epidemic of obesity which is driving the increased occurrence of type 2 diabetes and to less the burden of diabetic vascular complications. In the current volume, Topics in the Prevention, Treatment and Complications of Type 2 Diabetes, experts in biology and medicine from four different continents contribute important information and cutting-edge scientific knowledge on a variety of topics relevant to the management and prevention of diabetes and related illnesses.
BT  - Topics in the Prevention, Treatment and Complications of Type 2 Diabetes
SP  - Ch. 16
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/23872
DO  - 10.5772/23872
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-23
ER  -