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This third installment of The Year in Diabetes and Obesity review series includes reviews with a special focus on metabolic syndrome and health. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit http://ordering.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subs.asp?ref=1749-6632&doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1749-6632. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.

Contents:

Pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes: lessons from natural studies of high-risk individuals 1 Natalie Nokoff and Marian Rewers The role of reactive oxygen species and proinflammatory cytokines in type 1 diabetes pathogenesis 16 Lindsey E. Padgett, Katarzyna, A. Broniowska, Polly A. Hansen, John A. Corbett and Hubert M. Tse Cardiovascular disease and glycemic control in type 2 diabetes: now that the dust is settling from large clinical trials 36 Francesco Giorgino, Anna Leonardini and Luigi Laviola Type 2 diabetes in South Asians: similarities and differences with white Caucasian and other populations 51 Unjali P. Guyral, R. Pradeepa, Mary Beth Weber, K.M. Venkat Narayan and V. Mohan Type 2 diabetes in East Asians: similarities and differences with population in Europe and the United States 64 Ronald C.W. Ma and Juliana C.N. Chan Islet cell mass in diabetes and how it relates to function, birth, and death 92 Gordon C. Weir and Susan Bonner-Weir Nanoalcoholic fatty liver disease: an emerging threat to obese and diabetic individuals 106 Howard C. Masuoka and Naga Chalasani What is metabolic syndrome, and why are children getting it? 123 Ram Weiss, Andrew A. Bremer and Robert H. Lustig Physical activity in obesity and metabolic syndrome 141 Barbara Strasser Human adipose dynamics and metabolic health 160 Bin Feng, Tracy Zhang and Haiyan Xu The genetics of human obesity 178 Qianghua Xia and Struan F.A. Grant Managing obesity in primary care practice: a narrative review 191 Raymond Carvajal, Thomas A. Wadden, Adam G. Tsai, Katherine Peck and Caroline H. Moran