Type 1 Diabetes

Zusatztext An updated concise text providing students! residents and practitioners with the epidemiology! clinical aspects and therapy of Type 1 autoimmune diabetes. Informationen zum Autor David Levy is Consultant Physician at the Gillian Hanson Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Whipps Cross University Hospital, London, UK; and Hon Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He qualified from Cambridge and University College Hospital London, and has written several books on diabetes, both for professionals and patients. Klappentext This highly practical volume in the Oxford Diabetes Library emphasizes both the unique nature of Type 1 diabetes and its fundamental differences from Type 2 diabetes (at least in its "classic" form), and also draws together the common threads of management, and will be relevant to all advanced practitioners in primary and secondary care. Zusammenfassung Providing clinicians with the latest developments in research, this new edition of Type 1 Diabetes is a succinct and practical guide to the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of Type 1 diabetes.Part of the Oxford Diabetes Library series, this pocketbook contains 12 fully updated chapters on key topics such as history, epidemiology, aetiology, presentation, insulin treatment, and microvascular and macrovascular complications. It also features new chapters on technology, diet and lifestyle, and pregnancy planning to ensure the reader is fully equipped with the latest understanding of Type 1 diabetes.

An updated concise text providing students, residents and practitioners with the epidemiology, clinical aspects and therapy of Type 1 autoimmune diabetes.

Autorentext

David Levy is Consultant Physician at the Gillian Hanson Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Whipps Cross University Hospital, London, UK; and Hon Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He qualified from Cambridge and University College Hospital London, and has written several books on diabetes, both for professionals and patients.

Klappentext

This highly practical volume in the Oxford Diabetes Library emphasizes both the unique nature of Type 1 diabetes and its fundamental differences from Type 2 diabetes (at least in its "classic" form), and also draws together the common threads of management, and will be relevant to all advanced practitioners in primary and secondary care.

Zusammenfassung
Providing clinicians with the latest developments in research, this new edition of Type 1 Diabetes is a succinct and practical guide to the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of Type 1 diabetes. Part of the Oxford Diabetes Library series, this pocketbook contains 12 fully updated chapters on key topics such as history, epidemiology, aetiology, presentation, insulin treatment, and microvascular and macrovascular complications. It also features new chapters on technology, diet and lifestyle, and pregnancy planning to ensure the reader is fully equipped with the latest understanding of Type 1 diabetes.

Inhalt

• 1: History, epidemiology, and aetiology

• 2: Presentation and early clinical course

• 3: Diet and lifestyle

• 4: Insulin treatment and pancreas transplantation

• 5: Technology, current and future

• 6: Microvascular complications: DCCT/EDIC, Pittsburgh,and Finland

• 7: Management of microvascular and associated complications

• 8: Macrovascular complications, hypertension, and lipids

• 9: Adolescence and emerging adulthood

• 10: Pregnancy planning in Type 1 diabetes

• 11: Psychological problems

• 12: Some practical matters