Principles of Diabetes Mellitus

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Poretsky, Leonid. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Diabetes.; Endocrinology.; Emergency medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Primary Care Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09841-8

Principles of Diabetes Mellitus, Second Edition is an important update to the comprehensive textbook first published in 2002 and reissued in 2004. It is written for physicians of all specialties who, on a daily basis, deal with an illness which has reached epidemic proportions. The book is also inte...

Table of Contents:

• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Preface to the First Edition
• I: The main events in the history of diabetes mellitus
• II: Physiology of glucose metabolism
• III: Diagnosis and epidemiology of diabetes
• IV: Genes and diabetes
• V: Diabetes Syndromes
• VI: Complications of diabetes
• VII: Related disorders
• VIII:Therapy of diabetes mellitus - general principles
• IX: Diabetes Prevention
• X: Resources for patients with diabetes
• Index.