Main description:

Diabetes continues to spread across the globe at an alarming rate, with a current count of approximately 386 million worldwide. Physicians and healthcare professionals in all specialties greatly need a concise guide for managing this disease on a daily basis.

Diabetes Mellitus - A Concise Clinical Guide covers the basics of diagnosis, complications, therapies and prevention. Major developments in understanding diabetes and in therapeutic approaches to this disease are also featured. This book is comprised of sections originally published in the comprehensive textbook, Principles of Diabetes Mellitus, Second Edition.

Primary care physicians and endocrinologists, as well as medical students, will find this guide an invaluable and practical reference.

Contents:

Diagnosis and Epidemiology of Diabetes

Diagnostic Criteria and Classification of Diabetes

James P. Leu and Joel Zonszein

Epidemiology

Shadi Chamany and Bahman P. Tabaei

Diabetes in Culturally Diverse Populations: From Biology to Culture

A. Enrique Caballero

Complications of Diabetes

Acute Hyperglycemic Syndromes: Diabetic Ketoacidosis and the Hyperosmolar State

Yun Feng and Adrienne M. Fleckman

Hypoglycemia in Diabetes Mellitus

Mazen Alsahli and John E. Gerich

Intake of Advanced Glycation Endproducts: Role in the Development of Diabetic

Complications

Helen Vlassara and Gary E. Striker

Diabetic Retinopathy

Ketan Laud and Uri Shabto

Diabetic Nephropathy

James F. Winchester, Donald A. Feinfeld, Nikolas B. Harbord, and Alan Dubrow

Diabetic Neuropathy

Russell L. Chin and Michael Rubin

Peripheral Vascular Disease in Diabetes

Jennifer K. Svahn, Jeffrey S. Kirk, Omar H. Llaguna, and Nancy Habib

The Diabetic Foot

Dennis Shavelson, John S. Steinberg, and Bradley W. Bakotic

Male Sexual Dysfunction in Diabetes Mellitus

Barry M. Mason, Albert C. Leung, Michael E. DiSanto, and Arnold Melman

Gastrointestinal Manifestations of Diabetes

Donald P. Kotler and Stanley Hsu

Dyslipidemia: Pathogenesis and Management

Om P. Ganda

Dermatological Complications of Diabetes Mellitus; Allergy to Insulin and Oral Agents . . . . 457

George I. Varghese, Ellen S. Marmur, and Mathew C. Varghese

Therapy of Diabetes Mellitus - General Principles

Glycemic Goals

David J. Brillon

Behavioral and Educational Approaches to Diabetes Self-Management

Maria A. Mendoza, Monique Welbeck, and Grishma Parikh

Dietary Therapy of Diabetes Mellitus

Gladys Witt Strain, Rosalia Doyle, and Faith Ebel

Exercise in the Therapy of Diabetes Mellitus

Sefton Vergano, Rajiv Bhambri, and Stephen H. Schneider

Therapy of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Pejman Cohan and Anne L. Peters

Treating Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Susan Herzlinger and Martin J. Abrahamson

Prevention of Microvascular Complications of Diabetes - General Overview

Vincent Yen

Psychiatric Care of the Patient with Diabetes

Jennifer L. Kraker and Stephen J. Ferrando

Management of Diabetes and Hyperglycemia in the Hospital Setting

Samantha DeMauro-Jablonski and Silvio E. Inzucchi

The Future of Diabetes Therapy

Graham T. McMahon

Diabetes Prevention

Prevention of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Paolo Pozzilli and Chiara Guglielmi

Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Edward S. Horton