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 in the modern healthcare environment. Type 2 Diabetes offers a current 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. Goldstein’s and Müller-Wieland’s Type 2 Diabetes : covers all aspects of the worldwide health problem in a clinically focused manner is written by internationally renowned experts in all fields relating to diabetes emphasizes practical diagnostic and management issues, and offers specific therapeutic goals, approaches, and guidelines New chapters include: exercise in diabetes coronary heart disease and diabetes stroke peripheral vascular disease the emerging relationship of PCOS and NASH to diabetes
Author(s): J Goldstein Barry, Dirk Mueller-Wieland
Edition: 2
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 610
