Main description:

This new edition provides clinicians and trainees with the latest advances in the diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus.

Beginning with an overview of physiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis and classification, the next chapters discuss related issues such as nutrition, exercise and counselling.

The following sections cover different aspects of the disease including emergency situations, therapeutic agents, and associated disorders including retinopathy, stroke, liver disease, and neuropathy.

The final chapters examine diabetes in specific demographic groups such as in pregnancy, obesity, in the elderly and in childhood and adolescence.

The eighth edition has been fully revised and includes new topics including new anti-diabetic drugs, recent clinical trials, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

The book is highly illustrated with clinical photographs, tables and boxes, and each chapter concludes with MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions) with answers, for self-assessment.

Key points

Eighth edition presenting latest advances in diagnosis and management of diabetes
Fully revised, with many new topics added
Features MCQs with answers for self-assessment
Previous edition (9789351528531) published in 2015

Contents:

Physiology
Introduction and Overview of Glycemic Disorders

PART A: Epidemiology and Pathogenesis
PART B: Classification and Approach

Practical Medical Nutritional Therapy
Exercise
Counseling
Oral Antidiabetic Agents
Parenteral Therapeutic Agents
Insulin Therapy-Practical Aspects
Gadgets and Glucose Monitoring
Peripheral Neuropathy
Feet, Foot Care, and Neuroarthropathy

PART A: Foot Care and Neuroarthropathy
PART B: Wound Care in Patients with Diabetes

Therapeutic Footwear
Hypertension
Nephropathy
Macrovascular Complications in Diabetes

PART A: Cardiovascular Complications and Dyslipidemia
PART B: Stroke and Diabetes

Ocular Disease and Retinopathy
Diabetes and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Autonomic Neuropathy
Infections in Diabetes
Cutaneous Manifestations of Diabetes Mellitus
Hyperglycemic Emergencies
Hypoglycemia
Pregnancy and Diabetes
Diabetes in Childhood and Adolescence
Diabetes in the Elderly
Secondary Diabetes and Other Specific Types
Perioperative Care
Obesity with Diabetes
Laboratory and Analytical Methods
Recent Advances
In-hospital Management of Diabetes
Integrating Systems 601

PART A: Team Approach to the Management of Diabetes
PART B: Telehealth - Bridging Distances in Diabetes

Answers to All MCQs

Appendices

Final Assessment