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By
Anthony Barnett, MB, BS, BSc(Hons), MD, FRCP, Professor of Medicine, University of Birmingham, Consultant Physician and Head of Diabetes Services, Birmingham
Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust (Teaching), Birmingham, UK
Geraldine O'Gara, MB, BCh, MRCGP, General Practitioner and Hospital Practitioner in Diabetes Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust (Teaching)
Included in series
Churchill's In Clinical Practice,
Description
This series of books is aimed at the primary care market and aims to provide useful up-to-date information on key subject areas of interest
and debate in clinical practice. The aim is to provide a full-color overview of disease areas (or 'symptoms') using a modern artwork
program, useful 'pull-out quotes' to highlight key areas of discussion and real-life 'clinical cases.'
Audience
Internists and Internal Medicine Residents, Family Practitioners & Residents, 3rd & 4th Year Medical students
Contents
Introduction and background - scale of the problem of diabetes; reasons for exponential rise in numbers; overview of vascular complications.
Definition
and epidemiology - diabetes and cardiovascular disease focus on the heart scale of the problem
Aetiology - importance of metabolic
(insulin resistance) syndrome. Co-occurrence of risk factors for atherogenesis and vascular disease
Obesity
Lipids
Hypertension
Glycaemia
Smoking
Diagnosis
- diabetes is a cardiovascular disease risk factor screening low threshold for investigations tools for investigation
Prevention -
evidence base for treatment key clinical trials
Treatment - obesity, dyslipidaemia, hypertension, glycaemia, lifestyle advice
Future
developments - emphasis on care pathways algorithmic approaches treating to target new uses for established therapies (e.g. glitazones,
rapid acting insulin secretagogues)
Clinical cases
Appendices
References
Index
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Paperback, 128 pages, publication date: OCT-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07469-1
ISBN-10: 0-443-07469-0
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 30 Oct 2009
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