Medical Management of Diabetes Mellitus

William T Cefalu editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

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This book is a how-to manual for practicing physicians and health care providers, nurse educators, nutritionists, and physicians in training in the management of persons with diabetes mellitus. Experts with strong clinical and teaching backgrounds provide up-to-date recom-mendations and rationale of the most effective diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to diabetes mellitus and its multiorgan micro- and macrovascular complications for patients of all ages.
Gives five practical guidelines for nutrition therapy that supplies realistic recommendations!
With contributions from nearly 60 clinicians who reveal a constellation of disorders with different signs, symptoms, clinical characteristics, and therapies, Medical Management of Diabetes Mellitus

  • reviews the autoimmune process and genetics of type 1 and type 2 diabetes
  • offers an overview of the medications that impair glucose metabolism causing hypo- or hyperglycemia
  • covers pathogenesis, clinical presentation, and diagnosis with specialized laboratory tests
  • surveys therapeutic modalities, their mechanisms of action, and rationale for use
  • focuses on outcomes and how they are tracked
  • stresses early detection and therapy of end-organ complications
  • discusses the effect of intensive diabetes management on reducing retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy
  • considers incorporating psychiatric techniques into the treatment of diabetes
  • compares and contrasts diabetes in children, adults, and the elderly
  • and more!
    Containing over 850 references, tables, drawings, and photographs, Medical Management of Diabetes Mellitus is a cross-disciplinary reference perfect for family practice physicians, internists, pediatricians, endocrinologists, pharmacologists, nutritionists, physiologists, dietitians, obesity specialists, psychiatrists, and medical school students in these disciplines.<

    • "
    ...This book goes a long way toward providing the distilled wisdom of the North American diabetes community, and we can all learn from it.
    "- The New England Journal of Medicine

    ...a well written medical textbook that provides a comprehensive overview of the disease state of diabetes mellitus, signs and symptoms, pharmacotherapy and dietary and management approaches, and complications....
    ...presents valuable, in-depth information.
    "… American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

    ...The current volume provides a comprehensive, up-to-date review of diabetes mellitus....The format is different from that of many other textbooks. Physiology, biochemistry, anatomy and molecular biology are kept quite short. Instead of the encyclopaedic format, the authors try to outline the most effective diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to clinical problems.
    ...The book includes rare systems as well as latest developments.... The new volume may serve physicians to get familiar with new clinical information and provide effective treatment to patients with diabetes.
    "- Hormone Research, 2000

    "…offers a comprehensive, up-to-date overview…
    The authors outline the most effective diagnostic and therapeutics approaches.
    "-CHID
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    ISBN: 9780824788575

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: 1179g

    764 pages