ABSTRACT

This pocket-sized paperback provides accessible information on the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes related conditions. Compact and concise, each book is well-illustrated with colour photographs, line diagrams and tables.

chapter 1|4 pages

Type 2 diabetes: an impending pandemic?

What is type 2 diabetes?

chapter 2|5 pages

Insulin and metabolism

The β-cell and insulin secretion

chapter 3|9 pages

Type 2 diabetes: aetiology and pathogenesis

Genetic predisposition to type 2 diabetes

chapter |2 pages

The natural history of type 2 diabetes

chapter |1 pages

Bibliography

chapter 4|1 pages

Presenting features of type 2 diabetes

Hyperglycaemia

chapter |1 pages

Mode of presentation

chapter 5|2 pages

Diagnosis of diabetes mellitus

chapter |1 pages

Bibliography

chapter |24 pages

Diabetic eye disease

chapter 7|5 pages

The clinic

Aims of diabetes care

chapter |1 pages

Nutritional advice

chapter |6 pages

Blood glucose monitoring

chapter 9|1 pages

Diabetes and driving

If the patient is on insulin

chapter 10|1 pages

Diabetes and surgery

chapter 11|10 pages

The management armoury

Oral hypoglycaemic agents

chapter |6 pages

Adjunctive therapies

chapter 12|1 pages

The future

New hypoglycaemic agents

chapter |2 pages

Insulin pumps