Diabetes Management in Clinical Practice

Written by clinicians dealing with diabetes on a daily basis, this book features the latest word on diabetes management issues and prospects for future therapies and research. It also includes information on therapies currently undergoing clinical trial.

At a time when clinicians are bombarded with masses of clinical information from numerous sources, and the wide variety of changes/advances in diabetes management, there is a need for a concise, easy-to-read book that provides an up-to-date review of the major advances in management of diabetes, with an evidence-based approach. This book is a collection of short chapters, each focused on a subject related to the management of diabetes and its complications. The chapters are written by acknowledged experts in the field, who are also clinicians dealing with diabetes on a day-to-day basis. The text is highly evidence based and well referenced with reviews of relevant trials. It includes the latest developments in diabetes management, prospects for future therapies and avenues of research, as well as therapies currently undergoing clinical trial. In order to facilitate ease of reading, it has a user-friendly appearance, with multiple headings, illustrations and summary boxes. The primaryaudience is clinical, including all healthcare professionals involved in the management of diabetes and its complications. This encompasses diabetologists and endocrinologists, family practitioners with an interest in diabetes, specialist nurses, dietitians and podiatrists.

State of the art, evidence-based review of current practice and important topics in diabetes management Key points summary for each chapter Suitable clinical pathways and guidelines suggested?

Autorentext
Dr Tahseen Chowdhury, the editor, is lead clinician in the department of diabetes and metabolism at the Royal London Hospital, East London. He runs a large specialist diabetes and metabolism unit, dealing with diabetes particularly among the Bangladeshi community of Tower Hamlets. Dr Chowdhury has a research and clinical interest in diabetes in South Asians, and has authored over 100 publications, including a patient book entitled Diabetes in South Asian people: Explained. He qualified from the University of Birmingham and trained in Birmingham and Manchester, before becoming a consultant physician in 2000.

Klappentext

Diabetes Management in Clinical Practice provides a much-needed succinct overview of the advances in the management of diabetes and its complications. Using an evidence-based approach, the authors review relevant trials and discuss prospects for future therapies and avenues of research.

Written by experts in the field for a global audience, Diabetes Management in Clinical Practice is a practical guide for diabetologists and endocrinologists, family practitioners, specialist nurses, dietitians and podiatrists.

Inhalt

1. Preventing diabetes.- 2. Preventing diabetes complications: non-glucose interventions.- 3. Glycaemic therapy for diabetes.- 4.Preventing and managing renal disease in diabetes.- 5. Managing diabetic foot disease.- 6. Managing diabetes in hospital.