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Main description:
This book addresses diabetes controversies, specifically in the management of etiology and the disease itself. Chapters also examine the complications associated with diabetes. The volume covers commonly accepted forms of therapies and complications, as well as new and emerging advances and therapies and inadequacies in several standard treatments. Comprehensive and timely, this book is an essential reference for those treating and researching diabetes.
Contents:
Controversies in Treating Diabetes: Clinical and Research Aspects
(Humana Press)
Derek LeRoith and Arthur Vinik
Titles & Authors
1. Pancreatic transplant; should they reserved for simultaneous renal
transplants
David Sutherland
2. Islet cell transplants; how effect?
David Harlan
3. Metabolic Syndrome; Is there treatment that works?
James Meigs
4. Treatment of Obesity; the big and the small of it
LM Kaplan
5. Treatment of Type 2; Does it prevent all complications?
Vivian Fonseca
6. Treatment of Type2 using insulin; When to introduce?
Julio Rosentsock
7. Retinopathy; Can it be prevented?
Emily Chew
8. Neuropathy
Author Vinik
9. Intensive insulin therapy for critically ill patients
Greet Van den Berghe
10. Childhood diabetes explosion
Desmond Schatz
11. Environmental stress and dietary excess
Rena Wing
12. Unifying hypothesis of Diabetic Complications
Michael Brownlee
13. Diabetic Foot
Andrew Boulton
14. Coming of age for the Incretins
Jens Holst
15. Managing the ADA and NCEP criteria for treating hyperlipidemia of
diabetes
Ronald Goldberg
16. The polypill for Type 2 diabetes; Is the concept correct?
Werner Walthausl
17. Quality of life for Diabetics
Richard Rubin
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: February, 2008
Pages: 380
Weight: 735g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Diseases and Disorders, Endocrinology
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