A primary care provider is increasingly called upon to treat, work with or advise people with diabetes.

Diabetes Deskbook discuss the pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications, along with the most current thinking and guidelines about diagnosis, prescription, monitoring, nutrition, exercise, medications, insulin, patient education, and many other topics.

Contents

1. Diabetes: Definition and Pathophysiology
2. The Approach to Diagnose and Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus
3. Monitoring Diabetes
4. Adipose Tissue as an Endocrine Gland: A Possible Key in Understanding the Metabolic Mysteries
5. Medical Nutrition Therapy and Diabetes
6. Physical Activity for Fitness
7. Type 2 Diabetes: Multiple Treatments for a Multicomponent Condition
8. Pharmacotherapy for Type 2 Diabetes: Medications to Match the Pathophysiology
9. Using Insulin to Treat Diabetes—General Principles
10. Designing a Conventional Insulin Treatment Program
11. Physiologic Insulin Treatment Programs
12. Educating the Patient
13. Acute Complications
14. Microvascular Complications
15. Macrovascular Complications
16. Diabetic Neuropathy
17. The Foot: Clinical Care and Problem Prevention
18. Surgical Management of the Patient with Diabetes
19. Gender Specific Issues
20. Pregnancy and Diabetes
21. Treatment of Children with Diabetes
22. Diabetes in the Older Adult
23. Psychological Issues in the Treatment of Diabetes
24. Diabetes in Culturally Diverse Popularions: Facing the Challenge in Clinical Practice

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