Main description:

Key Features

* Details the latest diagnostic tests and treatments of diabetes and its complications, useful for ready reference by students, physicians, and healthcare professionals.
* Explains how heart failure and stroke are deadly complications of diabetes along with kidney failure and life-threatening infections.
* Establishes how cancer is linked to diabetes - a fact many people are not aware of - the book details the 6 types of cancer that may result from the disease, along with an individualized focus on the different "areas" of complications that occur from diabetes.
* Discusses the effect of diabetes upon the minds of patients, in relation to depression, anxiety, panic, PTSD, eating disorders, delirium, and dementia.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Pathophysiology of Diabetes

Chapter 2: Metabolic Syndrome

Chapter 3: Prevalence, Mortality, and Risk Factors

Part II: Microvascular Complications of Diabetes

Chapter 4: Diabetic Neuropathy

Chapter 5: Diabetic Retinopathy

Chapter 6: Diabetic Nephropathy

Part III: Macrovascular Complications of Diabetes

Chapter 7: Hypertension

Chapter 8: Dyslipidemia

Chapter 9: Coronary Artery Disease

Chapter 10: Congestive Heart Failure

Chapter 11: Stroke

Chapter 12: Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes

Chapter 13: Other Complications of Diabetes

Chapter 14: Cancer