Joslin's diabetes mellitus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joslin, Elliott P., 1869-1962.

Contributor:

Kahn, C. Ronald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diabetes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1232 p.)

Edition:

Fourteenth edition / edited by C. Ronald Kahn [and five others].

Other Title:

Diabetes mellitus

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Lippincott Williams & Willkins, 2005

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The "bible" on diabetes mellitus is now in its Fourteenth Edition-thoroughly revised and updated by more than 80 noted experts from the Joslin Diabetes Center and other leading institutions worldwide. This edition includes a new eleven-chapter section on hormone action and the regulation of metabolism. The section on definition and pathogenesis now includes chapters on genetics, diabetes in Asia and Africa, and diabetes in U.S. minority groups. Other new chapters cover retinopathy, cardiovascular disease, wound healing, and treatment of women with diabetes. All of the Fourteenth Edition's figures have been completely updated.

Contents:

section I. Basic mechanisms of islet development and function

section II. Hormone action and the regulation of metabolism

section III. Diabetes : definition, genetics, and pathogenesis

section IV. Obesity and lipoprotein disorders

section V. Treatment of diabetes mellitus

section VI. Biology of the complications of diabetes

section VII. Diabetic complications : clinical aspects

section VIII. Hypoglycemia and islet cell tumors.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4511-1071-5

1-4698-7724-4

OCLC:

923526317