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Diabetes : improving patient care / Vivian Fonseca.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford American Endocrinology Library
- Oxford American endocrinology library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diabetes--Treatment.
- Diabetes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (113 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Over 20 million people in the United States have diabetes, a metabolic disorder characterized by the body's lack of production or ineffective use of insulin, and the rate is on the rise. Diabetes can cause acute, as well as long-term complications when not properly controlled. Some of the complications may include coma, cardiovascular disease, renal failure, blindness, nerve damage, vascular damage, and poor healing which can lead to amputation. Though there is no cure for either Type I or Type II diabetes, ongoing effort to develop new drug and gene therapies continues. In the meantime, the g
- Contents:
- Meeting goals in diabetes : why and how
- The office visit : setting the goals
- Pharmacological treatment of type 2 diabetes
- Insulin therapy in ambulatory patients with type 2 diabetes
- Diabetes complications
- Facilitating motivation for self-care in patients with diabetes
- Diet recommendations and patient education
- Insulin therapy in hospitalized patients with diabetes mellitus.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-70009-3
- 0-19-970034-6
- OCLC:
- 818831150
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