The epidemiology of the metabolic syndrome and its association with diabetes cardiovascular disease and other conditions / Sarah H. Wild and Christopher D. Byrne -- Metabolic syndrome and ethnicity / Therese Tillin and Nita G. Forouhi -- Developmental origins of endothelial dysfunction: a key step in cardiometabolic disease / Christopher Torrens, Geraldine F. Clough, and Mark A. Hanson -- Developmental origins of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes / Susan E. Ozanne and Kenneth Siddle -- The metabolic syndrome in childhood -- / Ram Weiss and Sonia Caprio -- Assessment of insulin sensitivity / Julia Szendroedi, Esther Phielix, and Michael Roden -- Recent progress in identifying genes contributing to type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome -- / Weijia Xie, Timothy M. Frayling and Michael N. Weedon -- Endocrine aspects of the metabolic syndrome / Richard I.G. Holt and Peter H. Sönksen -- Brain insulin resistance / Katharine F. Hunt, Yee Seun Cheah, and Stephanie A. Amiel -- Cardiorespiratory fitness and the metabolic syndrome / Paul A. McAuley and Steven N. Blair -- Metabolic syndrome and mental illness / Richard I.G. Holt and Robert C. Peveler -- Atherothrombosis and the metabolic syndrome / Kristina F. Standeven and Peter J. Grant -- Inflammation and metabolic syndrome / Sridevi Devaraj, David Siegel, and Ishwarlal Jialal -- Adipocytokine dysregulation, obesity and the metabolic syndrome / Ulf Smith and Xiaolin Yang -- Non alcoholic fatty liver disease / Mohamed H. Ahmed and Christopher D. Byrne -- Polycystic ovary syndrome / Naveed Sattar -- Nutrition : its relevance in development and treatment of the metabolic syndrome / Lisa Te Morenga and Jim Mann -- Treatments for the metabolic syndrome / Markolf Hanefeld, Ulrike Schatz, and Frank Schaper -- Metabolic/bariatric surgery therapy for the metabolic syndrome / Henry Buchwald