Clinical diabetes : translating research into practice /

Fonseca, Vivian A.

Clinical diabetes : translating research into practice / Vivian A. Fonseca. - Philadelphia, PA : Saunders Elsevier, c2006. - xxi, 661 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Section 1: Pathophysiology
chapter 1: Scope of the problem: The diabetes and metabolic syndrome epidemic
chapter 2: Type 1 Diabetes: immunology and genetics
chapter 3: Type 2 Diabetes: Insulin resistance, Beta cell dysfunction and other metabolic and hormonal abnormalities
chapter 4: The Biochemical consequences of hyperglycemia
chapter 5: The pathogenesis and treatment of high-risk obesity
chapter 6: The metabolic syndrome and its effects on cardiovascular risks
chapter 7: Endothelial dysfunction in diabetes
chapter 8: Diabetes and inflammation

Section II : Complications
chapter 9: Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperrosmolar syndrome
chapter 10: Hypoglycemia in diabetes
chapter 11: Diabetic Neuropathies
chapter 12: Diabetic nephropathy
chapter 13: Erectile dysfunction in diabetes
chapter 14: The Diabetic foot
chapter 15: Managing cardiovascular disease and evens in the patient with diabetes
chapter 16: Diabetic retinopathy
chapter 17: Diagnotic testing for coronary artery disease in diabetic patients

Section III: Lifestyle management
chapter 18: Primar prevention of Type 2 diabetes mellitus
chapter 19: Medical nutrition therapy for type 1 and type 2 diabetes
chapter 20: Diabetes education
chapter 21: Stress and depression in disease
chapter 22: Exercise in diabetes

Section IV: Pharmacologic therapy
chapter 23: Insulin secretagogues
chapter 24: Insulin -sensitizing and insulin-sparing drugs
chapter 25: Glucosidase inhibitors
chapter 26: Type 2 Diabetes therapy: choosing oral agents
chapter 27: Lip management in diabetes
chapter 28: Hypertension in diabetes
chapter 29: Insulin strategies in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes mellitus
chapter 30: Beyond insulin therapy
chapter 31: Pharmacologic agents and nutritional supplements in the treatment of obesity
chapter 32: Physiologic insulin replacement with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion: insulin pump therapy
chapter 33: Glucose monitoring of the present and future
chapter 34: Pancreas, kidney and islet transplantation: what every physician needs to know

Section V: Special populations and situations
chapter 35: Diabetes and pregnancy
Chapter 36: Diabetes management in the hospital settling
chapter 37: Diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents
chapter 38: Diabetes in older adults
chapter 39: Diabetes in African Americans
Chapter 40: Diabetes in Latin Americans
Chapter 41: Diabetes in Asians
Chapter 42: New drugs and diabetes risk

Section VI: Management approaches
chapter 43: Running a diabetes clinic
Chapter 44: Using computers and technology for diabetes care
chapter 45: Pearls from major clinical trials: approaches to improving outcome of persons with diabetes

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Diabetes.
Diabetes Mellitus--physiopathology.
Diabetes Mellitus--therapy.
Evidence-Based Medicine.

WK 810 / F676c 2006