List of Sessions 

Session: Assessment of abdominal obesity, metabolic syndrome and related cardiometabolic risk

• The measurement of waist circumference: Strengths and limitations
• Assessment of the metabolic syndrome: the American perspective
• Assessment of insulin resistance to assess global cardiometabolic risk in clinical practice
• Hypertriglyceridemic waist: a simple clinical tool for a better assessment of cardiometabolic risk
• Abdominal obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic risk in Asia                              

Session: Pathophysiology of abdominal obesity and related cardiometabolic risk

• Visceral adipose tissue metabolism in human
• Visceral adiposity and insulin resistance; lessons from the dog
• Visceral adiposity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes
• Ectopic fat: An important feature of visceral obesity and type 2 diabetes
• Abdominal adipose tissue and inflammation
• Visceral adipose tissue and related cardiometabolic risk: lessons from Framingham

 Session: Assessment of global cardiometabolic risk

• Framingham
• Epic-Norfolk
• Physicians and Nurses Health Studies
• ARIC
• Translating risk assessment for the patient

Session: Drivers of CVD risk in abdominal obesity and type 2 diabetes

• The diabetologist perspective
• The lipidologist perspective
• The view of the hypertension expert
• The cardiologist perspective
• The heart surgeon perspective

Session: Management of abdominal obesity and global cardiometabolic risk:
physical activity/exercise

• Prevention of diabetes studies
• The Look-AHEAD trial: An update
• Physical activity/exercise approaches
• Modifying nutrition/physical activity habits in clinical practice: tricks and pitfalls
• A public health approach to abdominal obesity: The Japanese experience

Session: Nutritional management of abdominal obesity and type 2 diabetes:
From dieting to eating healthy

• Nutritional management of patients with the atherogenic dyslipidemia of the metabolic syndrome
• Improving diet quality and energy density: from the glycemic index to the portfolio diet
• Healthy drinking: an important component of healthy lifestyle
• Sugar supplemented beverages in type 2 diabetes and CVD
• Evolution of eating and drinking habits in Asia