Type 2 diabetes : principles and practice

Goldstein, Barry J. (Added Author). Müller-Wieland, Dirk. (Added Author).

Summary: The incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus have increased dramatically in modernized and developing nations over the past few decades. Thoroughly revised and expanded, this Second Edition responds to the epidemic and supplies a current overview and guide to the management of diabetes. This Second Edition offers a modern perspective on diabetes demographics, epidemiology, pathophysiology, disease monitoring, and approaches to glucose control, and supplies new chapters by world-renowned experts on non-pharmacological management options, complications of the skin and urogenital function, related macrovascular conditions, coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease, and rare forms of diabetes, PCOS, and NASH.

Record details

ISBN: 9780849379574 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0849379571 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xi, 591 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: New York : Informa Healthcare, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	New October 2011. Rev. ed. of: Textbook of type 2 diabetes. c2003.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Epidemiology of Type 2 Diabetes / Markku Lankso -- 2. Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes / Michael Stumvoll / Barry J. Goldstein / Timon W. van Haeften -- 3. Rationale and Goals for Glucose Control in Diabetes Mellitus and Glucose Monitoring / Ramachandiran Cooppan -- 4. Role of the Diabetes Educator in the Education and Management of Diabetes Mellitus / Carole Mensing -- 5. Nutrition in the Etiology and Management of Type 2 Diabetes / Monika Toeller / Jim I. Mann -- 6. Diabetes and Exercise / Gerhard Schuler / Axel Linke -- 7. Psychosocial Issues and Type 2 Diabetes / Carry W. Welch / Alan M. Jacobson / Katie Weinger -- 8. Oral Hypoglycemic Agents: Sulfonylureas and Meglitinides / Andreas F. H. Pfeiffer -- 9. Metformin / Michael Stumvoll / Hans-Ulrich Haring / Stephan Matthaei -- 10. Alpha-Glucosidase Inhibitors / Markolf Hanefeld -- 11. Thiazolidinediones / Sunder Mudaliar / Robert R. Henry -- 12. Treatment Strategies for Type 2 Diabetes Based on Incretin Action / Baptist Gallwitz / Michael Nauck -- 13. Pramlintide Acetate in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes / Steven V. Edelman / Brock E. Schroeder / Juan P. Frias -- 14. Insulin Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes / Kathleen L. Wyne / Pablo F. Mora -- 15. Combination Therapy for Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes / Anthony L. McCall -- 16. Hypoglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes / Philip E. Cryer -- 17. Diabetic Coma: Current Therapy of Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Non-Ketoacidotic Hyperosmolar Coma / Johannes Hansen -- 18. Diabetic Retinopathy and Ocular Complications / Brett Rosenblatt / Carl D. Regillo / William E. Benson -- 19. Renal Dysfunction and Hypertension / Carl Erik Mogensen -- 20. Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy and Sexual Dysfunction / Dan Ziegler -- 21. Diabetic Foot Ulcers / Michael Edmonds -- 22. Gastrointestinal and Autonomic Complications of Diabetes Mellitus / Adrian Vella / Michael Camilleri -- 23. Gestational Diabetes / Asha Thomas-Geevarghese / Robert E. Ratner -- 24. Epidemiology of Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents / Arlan L. Rosenbloom -- 25. Insulin Resistance Syndrome and Its Vascular Complications / Tina K. Thethi / Christina Bratcher / Tilak Mallik / Vivian Fonseca -- 26. Obesity: Influence on Diabetes and Management / Hans Hauner -- 27. Dyslipidemia and Diabetes / Ioanna Gouni-Berthold / David John Betteridge / Wilhelm Krone -- 28. Hypertension and Diabetes: Need for Combination Therapy / Guntram Schernthaner / Gerit-Holger Schernthaner -- 29. Evaluation of Cardiac and Peripheral Arterial Disease in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus / Rhuna Shen / Susan E. Wiegers / Ruchira Glaser -- 30. Acute Coronary Syndrome, Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Stable Coronary Artery Disease - Specific Considerations in Diabetes / Christian A. Schneider / Erland Erdmann -- 31. Anesthesia and Surgery in the Diabetic Patient / Jeffrey I. Joseph -- 32. Type 2 Diabetes: Geriatric Considerations / Jill P. Crandall -- 33. Diabetes in High-Risk Ethnic Populations / Ebenezer A. Nyenwe / Samuel Dagogo-Jack -- 34. Drug-Induced Hyperglycemia and Diabetes Mellitus / Mary Kate McCullen / Intekhab Ahmed -- 35. MODY: Lessons from Monogenetic Diabetes Forms / Birgit Knebel / Dirk Muller-Wieland -- 36. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and the Metabolic Syndrome / Onno E. Janssen / Susanne Tan / Tiina Dietz / Susanne Hahn -- 37. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Diabetes Mellitus / Leon A. Adams.