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Section I: Definitions of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes.- 1. Genetics of Obesity, Tetyana L. Vasylyeva.- 2. Fetal Origin of Obesity and Diabetes, Natalia Schlabritz-Lutsevich, Gene Hubbard, Ronald Adkins.- 3. Beta-Cell Growth Mechanisms, Thomas L. Jetton, Dhananjay Gupta, Mina Peshavaria.- 4. Race/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Body Mass Index (BMI) and the Resulting Spread of Obesity and "Adult-Onset" Diabetes Epidemics Among Adoloscents, Katherine E. Neubecker.- Section II: Obesity - Clinical Assessments.- 5. Assessment and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease in Obese Children, Piers R. Blackett, Petar Alaupovic, Kenneth C. Copeland.- 6. Community-based Approaches to Reduce Pediatric Obesity, Keith L. Perkins, Dawn M. McNamee.- 7. Physical Activity Approaches to Pediatric Weight Management, Douglas L. Hill, Brian H. Wrotniak, Kathry, H. Schmitz.- 8. Behavior Modification in Pediatric Obesity, Gerri Minshall, Fiona Davies, Louise A. Baur.- 9. Surgical Approaches to Pediatric Obesity, Aayed R. Al-Qahtani.- Section III: Diabetes - Clincial Assessments.- 10. Epidemiology of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Pediatric Populations, Shreepal M. Shah.- 11. Nutrition for the Diabetic Child, Catherine M. Champagne.- 12. Pharmacologic Approaches to Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity in Children and Adoloscents, Patama Pongsuwan.- 13. Insulin Pump Management, Justin M. Gregory.- 14. Hyperglycemic Crises in Diabetes Mellitus: Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar State, Dwain E. Woode, Abbas E. Kitabchi.- 15. Monogenic Diabetes, Rabia Rehman, hooman Oktaei, Dale Childress, Solomon S. Solomon.- 16. Secondary Causes of Obesity in Childhood, Paula Hale, Tulay Cushman, Edward S. Kimball, Aji Nair, Rebecca Gusic Shaffer.