1st Edition

Diabetes A Comprehensive Treatise for Patients and Care Givers

By Shamim I. Ahmad Copyright 2014

    Diabetes: A Comprehensive Treatise for Patients and Care Givers is written with the intention of keeping readers abreast of the latest advancements, understanding, emerging trends, and technology in the field of diabetes. Several tables help to facilitate understanding of the concepts presented. Gestational diabetes, a topic commonly ignored, is also discussed in detail in a separate chapter.

    This book reviews recent findings of the most popular herbal medicines to treat diabetes through their relevant mechanism of actions. The book is unique in the sense that it is written for both care providers and patients. Chapter 18, Food and Diabetes; the Epilogue; and Appendices 1-4 are the sections especially designed and written for patients and care givers.

    An overview of above subjects will provide readers with a solid background to understand the exciting future developments in this rapidly moving science.

    Introduction

    Epidemiology

    Risk Factors for Diabetes

    Classification of Diabetes

    Glucose Production and its Control in Body

    Pancreas, Its Structure and Function

    Pathophysiology of Diabetes

    Biochemical Factors Playing Roles in Diabetes

    Environmental Factors Inducing Type 1 and Type II Diabetes

    Signs and Symptoms of Diabetes

    Diagnostic Criteria and Tests for Diabetes

    Complications of Diabetes Mellitus

    Miscellaneous Complications

    Management of Diabetes

    Pharmacological Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus

    An Overview on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

    Food and Diabetes

    Epilogue

    Special Guidance for Diabetic Patients

    Appendices

    Biography

    Shamim I. Ahmad