Type 1 Diabetes

by David Levy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191079238
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	07/28/2016
Series:	Oxford Diabetes Library Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Stelios Mantis, MD (University of Chicago Medical Center)
Description: In his effort to provide general medical practitioners with detailed strategies for dealing with type 1 diabetic patients, the author has come up with a brief yet descriptive book with sufficient information on the diagnosis, management, pathophysiology, and complications in these patients.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a short and contemporary book on type 1 diabetes. It successfully stresses the importance of maintaining good glycemic control in these patients and is very helpful in detailing strategies about how to achieve euglycemia as well.
Audience: Although the author clearly states there are chapters pertinent for endocrine subspecialists in-training as well as for general medical students, it is clear the book is intended to educate and inform those in general medical practice about new strategies and complications in dealing with type 1 diabetic patients.
Features: The most detailed and focused chapters include a description of the consequences of longstanding disease and its affect on patients, from both a micro and macro molecular perspective. The book gives a detailed analysis of the pathophysiology of these complications in a very understandable manner. Current resources are the basis of the up-to-date guidelines for treatment. An extensive list of references and a list of suggested readings at the end of every chapter guide the reader looking for further detail.
Assessment: The author cleverly provides key points at the beginning of each chapter and achieves the goal of offering current literary evidence for the highlighted themes. This gives readers the opportunity to preview each chapter and look for more detail on these key points. This makes the book not only user friendly, but a good book to use as a quick reference at a moment's notice.

Doody's Review Service

"An updated concise text providing students, residents and practitioners with the epidemiology, clinical aspects and therapy of Type 1 autoimmune diabetes."
Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, Volume 14 No 2, December 2016

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