Diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus

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Abstract: A clinical manual for medical students, house-officers, and primary care physicians provides step-by-step procedures for treating diabetic patients, including the acute and chronic complications of diabetes. Thirty-five chapters cover a variety of topics concerning the diabetic, ranging from diagnosis and immunologic reactions to insulin, to home monitoring of blood glucose. Other topics covered are: diabetes control (selection and use of insulin, dietary management, oral sulfonylurea drugs, exercise, hypoglycemia, sweetener substitutes), diabetes in special situations (pregnancy, obesity, surgery, infections, coma), and basic information concerning diabetes (etiology and genetics, glucose metabolic pathways and homeostasis, diabetic ketoacidosis). (wz).

subjects: Diabetes Mellitus,  Therapy,  Diagnosis,  Diabetes,  Diabete