Manual of Diabetes Care

Manual of Diabetes Care provides an up-to-date overview of the diagnosis and management of diabetes, with an emphasis on therapeutic guidance for clinicians.

Beginning with an introduction to the condition and its epidemiology, the following chapters describe Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and diagnosis and screening.

Management of diabetes through both pharmacotherapy and non-pharmacological methods, for different related conditions is then discussed in depth, including diabetes in pregnancy and in the elderly. The final sections examine complications in diabetes such as diabetic foot, renal problems and co-morbidities, as well as prevention of the disease.

Key points

• Provides overview of diagnosis and management of diabetes
• Describes both pharmacotherapy and non-pharmacological treatment
• Extensive coverage of complications in diabetes
• Highly illustrated with nearly 140 images, diagrams and tables

1. Diabetes: An Introduction
2. Epidemiology of Diabetes
3. Type 1 Diabetes: Etiology and Pathogenesis
4. Type 2 Diabetes: Etiology and Pathogenesis
5. Classification of Diabetes
6. Diagnosis and Screening
7. Non-pharmacological Management of Diabetes
8. Pharmacotherapy of Type 2 Diabetes
9. Incretin-based Therapies
10. Insulins
11. Secondary Diabetes
12. Diabetes and Pregnancy
13. Diabetes in Elderly
14. Diabetes and Lifestyle
15. Acute Complications of Diabetes
16. Chronic Complications of Diabetes: An Overview
17. Diabetic Neuropathy
18. Renal Complications in Diabetes
19. Foot Complications in Diabetes
20. Managing Co-morbidities
21. Prevention of Diabetes

Rajeev Chawla MD FRCP (Edin)
Senior Consultant Diabetologist, Director, North Delhi Diabetes Centre, New Delhi, India