Principles of diabetes mellitus /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- I. The main events in the history of diabetes mellitus
- II. Physiology of glucose metabolism
- Ch. 1. Normal glucose homeostasis
- Ch. 2. Endocrine pancreas: mechanisms of insulin secretion by the beta-cells; interactions among insulin, glucagon and somatostatin
- Ch. 3. Cellular mechanisms of insulin action
- III. Diagnosis and epidemiology of diabetes
- Ch. 1. Diagnostic criteria and classification of diabetes
- Ch. 2. Epidemiology of diabetes and its burden in the world and in the United States
- IV. Genes and diabetes
- Ch. 1. Diabetes genes. Human genome project and diabetes mellitus
- Ch. 2. Animal models of diabetes
- V. Diabetes Syndromes
- Ch. 1. Type I diabetes mellitus: epidemiology, genetics, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations
- Ch. 2. Type 2 diabetes mellitus : etiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations
- Ch. 3. Maturity-onset diabetes of the young: molecular genetics, clinical manifestations and therapy
- Ch. 4. Diabetes in pregnancy
- Ch. 5. Secondary causes of diabetes mellitus
- Ch. 6. Syndromes of extreme insulin resistance
- VI. Complications of diabetes
- Ch. 1. Acute hyperglycemic syndromes: diabetic ketoacidosis and the hyperosmolar state
- Ch. 2. Hypoglycemia
- Ch. 3. Microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus
- Ch. 4. Diabetic retinopathy
- Ch. 5. Diabetic nephropathy
- Ch. 6. Diabetic neuropathy
- Ch. 7. Peripheral vascular disease in diabetes
- Ch. 8. The diabetic foot
- Ch. 9. Male sexual dysfunction in diabetes mellitus
- Ch. 10. Gastrointestinal manifestations of diabetes
- Ch. 11. Hyperlipidemia: pathogenesis and management in diabetes mellitus
- Ch. 12. Dermatological complications of diabetes mellitus; allergy to insulin and oral agents
- VII. Therapy of diabetes mellitus
- Ch. 1. Glycemic goals
- Ch. 2. Behavioral and educational approaches to diabetes self-management
- Ch. 3. Dietary therapy of diabetes mellitus
- Ch. 4. Exercise in the therapy of diabetes mellitus
- Ch. 5. Therapy of type I diabetes mellitus
- Ch. 6. Therapy of type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Ch. 7. Prevention of microvascular complications of diabetes
- Ch. 8. Psychological and psychiatric issues in diabetes mellitus
- VIII. Related disorders
- Ch. 1. Obesity - genetics, pathogenesos, therapy
- Ch. 2. Hypertension
- Ch. 3. Coronary artery disease and cardiomyopathy
- Ch. 4. Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Ch. 5. Insulin resistance and the Metabolic Syndrome
- IX. Diabetes prevention
- X. Resource for patients with diabetes.