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Author Drury, Paul L.

Title Diabetes : your questions answered / Paul L. Drury, Wendy Gatling
Published Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone, [2005]
©2005

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Description 341 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Series Your questions answered
Your questions answered (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Contents 1. Background to diabetes -- 2. Natural history, glycaemic control and complications -- 3. Clinical presentation and initial management of diabetes -- 4. Dietary and lifestyle management -- 5. Use of oral hypoglycaemic agents -- 6. Insulin treatment -- 7. Hypoglycaemia -- 8. Problems with glycaemic control -- 9. Decompensated diabetes -- 10. Organisation and delivery of diabetes care -- 11. Issues of daily life with diabetes -- 12. Reproduction and sexual function -- 13. Macrovascular disease and its prevention -- 14. Renal disease in diabetes -- 15. Eye disease in diabetes -- 16. Neuropathy -- 17. Diabetic foot and peripheral arterial disease -- 18. Other complications and accompaniments of diabetes -- App. 1. Stages of change -- App. 2. Smoking cessation -- Glossary : studies and trials in diabetes
Summary Covers both common and more rare disorders, popular question-and-answer format, sections of frequently asked patients' questions, with easy-to-understand answers for patients or carers, useful information on websites and patient associations
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references : pages [299]-315
Subject Diabetes -- Treatment.
Diabetes -- Complications.
Diabetes.
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes -- New Zealand.
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes.
Primary care (Medicine)
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 -- complications.
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 -- therapy.
Family Practice -- methods.
Patient Care Management -- methods.
Author Gatling, Wendy.
LC no. 2004050341
ISBN 0443073899
Other Titles Your questions answered : Diabetes