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

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