**Meet the editor**

Roya Kelishadi, MD, is a University Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, and Child Health Promotion Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Her main field of study is primordial and primary prevention of non-communicable early life diseases. She has published more than 250 papers in peer reviewed biomedical journals, and 20 chapters in books. She has

been awarded several times as distinguished researcher or physician. Many of her studies regarding the ethnic differences in metabolic parameters, and the association of lifestyle habits and environmental factors on the beginning and progress of atherosclerotic changes, have been acknowledged as the first of their kind.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Obesity Related Lipid Profile and Altered Insulin** 

Lei Zhang, Qing Qiao and Yanhu Dong

**and Air Pollution on Dyslipidemia** 

Roya Kelishadi and Parinaz Poursafa

Chapter 5 **Dyslipidemia and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus:** 

**in the Metabolic Syndrome 93** 

Chapter 7 **Functions of OSBP/ORP Family Proteins** 

Chapter 8 **Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle** 

**and the Components of Metabolic Syndrome 73** 

**Implications and Role of Antiplatelet Agents in Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease 79** 

Nora L. Nock and Aiswarya L.P. Chandran Pillai

**and Their Relation to Dyslipidemia 127**  Hiroshi Koriyama, Hironori Nakagami, Tomohiro Katsuya and Ryuichi Morishita

Jozef Ukropec and Barbara Ukropcova

**Plasticity in Obesity and Metabolic Disease 141** 

Chapter 2 **Ethnic Difference in Lipid Profiles 15** 

Chapter 3 **Nutrigenetics and Dyslipidemia 41** 

Maryam Shalileh

Chapter 4 **Impact of Climate Change** 

Hasniza Zaman Huri

Chapter 6 **Dyslipidemia: Genetics and Role** 

Annamaria Fulghesu and Roberta Magnini

**Incretion in Adolescent with Policystic Ovary Syndrome 1** 
