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ABC of Diabetes
by Peter J. Watkins
Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Introduction vii
1
What is diabetes? 1
2
Clinical presentation: why is diabetes so often missed? 7
3
Aims of treatment: a healthy lifestyle 10
4
Treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus 14
5
Insulin treatment 19
6
Blood glucose monitoring: optimising diabetic control 25
7
The unstable Type 1 diabetic patient 30
8
Hypoglycaemia 32
9
Diabetic ketoacidosis and management of diabetes during
surgery 37
10
Diabetic complications: cause and prevention 42
11 Retinopathy 47
12 Peripheral neuropathies 51
13 Autonomic neuropathy 53
14 Mononeuropathies and acute painful neuropathies 57
15 The diabetic foot 59
16 Diabetic nephropathy 65
17 Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, lipids, and
myocardial infarction 72
18 Pregnancy 77
19 Organisation of diabetic care: primary-secondary care
interface 82
20 Practical problems 88
Appendix 1 91
Further information 92
Index 95
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