Overview

Diabetes is a disease that occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to control the amount of glucose in the blood. This book is a comprehensive guide to the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. Divided into six sections, the manual begins with an overview of diagnosis and classification, followed by discussion on epidemiology and aetiopathogenesis. Section four covers comorbidities and complications of diabetes including hyper- and hypoglycaemia, heart failure, foot ulcers, and diabetic retinopathy. The final sections examine recent advances and technologies. The detailed text is further enhanced by clinical photographs, diagrams and tables to assist learning. Key points Comprehensive guide to latest advances in diagnosis and management of diabetes Discusses diagnosis and classification, epidemiology and aetiopathogenesis Covers many different comorbidities and complications Highly illustrated with clinical photographs, diagrams and tables

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Author:   Viswanathan Mohan ,  MA Shekar ,  Gundu HR Rao
Publisher:   Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
Imprint:   Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9789390020171

ISBN 10:   9390020174
Pages:   430
Publication Date:   30 November 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

SECTION 1: DIAGNOSIS & CLASSIFICATION Classification of diabetes Diagnosis of diabetes - a reality check? Pancreatic diabetes SECTION 2: EPIDEMIOLOGY Management of diabetes epidemic: Global perspective Global epidemic of type 2 diabetes: An epidemiologist's perspective Lifestyle factors in the epidemic of Type 2 diabetes Reversal of diabetes and lifestyle disorders: the basis, effectiveness and evidence Diabetes in Manitoba - a plan to address the epidemic SECTION 3: ETIOPATHOGENESIS Hyperglycemia in Pregnancy - New clinical paradigms Diabetes in South Asia: Epidemiology, determinants, clinical management and public health implications The lifespan from obesity to adiposity to adiposopathy Essential fatty acids and their metabolites in diabetes mellitus Fetal origins of adult disease in south Asians - in utero disturbances and metabolic diseases Epigenetics of diabetes complications Genomics of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and monogenic forms of diabete SECTION 4: CO-MORBIDITIES AND COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETES Diabetic dyslipidemia Managing hyperglycaemia in diabetic kidney disease Hyperglycaemia & hypoglycaemia in the long term care of elderly diabetes Heart failure and diabetes mellitus Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy Recent advances in management of diabetes foot ulcers Clinical advances in diabetic retinopathy Diabetic ketoacidosis in children and adolescents SECTION 5: RECENT ADVANCES AND TECHNOLOGIES Gestational diabetes mellitus - screening, diagnosis and management Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease - The connection Diagnosis of early risks, management of risks and reduction of vascular diseases Recent trends in diabetes technologies Medical devices made in India and diagnostic platforms validated for the management of cardiometabolic risks TM-Flow system: A valid solution to inverse: The growing trend of diabetes and associated vascular disease SECTION 6: SPECIAL ISSUES IN DIABETES Precision medicine in diabetes: What, when and where? Contribution of SASAT for our understanding of cardiometabolic disease in south Asians Contributions from diabetes unit, KEM Hospital to diabetes research in India Early origins of non-communicable disease: Perspectives from Mysore cohorts New-biology Frontiers in diabetes research with special reference to MicroRNAomics, Metabolomics, and Metagenomics

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Viswanathan Mohan MD PhD DSc FRCP FNA FACE FTWAS MACP Principal Investigator, President and Chief of Diabetes Research, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chairman and Chief Diabetologist, Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India MA Shekar MD FRCP Director, Chowdaiah Medical Centre and Apoorva Diabetes Foundation, Mysuru; Former-Director, Karnataka Institute of Endocrinology and Research, Bengaluru; Former-Professor of Medicine and Head (I/C), Department of Endocrinology, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Mysuru, Karnataka, India Gundu HR Rao PhD Emeritus Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Lillehei Heart Institute, Institute of Engineering Medicine, University of Minnesota, USA

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