The Year in Diabetes and Obesity, Volume 1212

Pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes: lessons from natural studies ofhigh-risk individuals 1
Natalie Nokoff and Marian Rewers

The role of reactive oxygen species and proinflammatorycytokines 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 differenceswith white Caucasian and other populations 51
Unjali P. Guyral, R. Pradeepa, Mary Beth Weber, K.M. VenkatNarayan and V. Mohan

Type 2 diabetes in East Asians: similarities and differenceswith population in Europe and the United States 64
Ronald C.W. Ma and Juliana C.N. Chan

Islet β cell mass in diabetes and how it relates tofunction, birth, and death 92
Gordon C. Weir and Susan Bonner-Weir

Nanoalcoholic fatty liver disease: an emerging threat to obeseand diabetic individuals 106
Howard C. Masuoka and Naga Chalasani

What is metabolic syndrome, and why are children getting it23
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 review191
Raymond Carvajal, Thomas A. Wadden, Adam G. Tsai, KatherinePeck and Caroline H. Moran