Diabetes Demystified: A Self-teaching Guide
Author(s): Umesh Masharani
Sorts through various types, symptoms, causes, tests, and treatments associated with diabetes, delivering advice on how to understand, manage, and prevent type 1 and type 2 diabetes. This text offers tips for choosing the best treatment plan, finding the right practitioner, and adhering to an effective diet plan.
General Information
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- : McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- : McGraw-Hill Contemporary
- : 0.358
- : 01 December 2007
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Umesh Masharani
- : Paperback
- : 616.462
- : 304
- : Illustrations, maps
More About The Product
Dr. Umesh Masharani, is an associate clinical professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and associate chief of the Diabetes Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco.
Introduction Chapter 1 -- What is Diabetes? Chapter 2 -- What Kind of Diabetes Do You Have? Chapter 3 -- What Causes Type 2Diabetes? Chapter 4 - Diet for Diabetics Chapter 5 -- Exercise Guidelines for Diabetics. Chapter 6 - Vitamins and Herbs for Diabetics Chapter 7 -- Drugs in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes. New versus Old vChapter 8 -- Insulin Therapy: New versus old types of Insulin Chapter 9 -- Insulin Pump Chapter 10- What about Islet Cell Transplants? Chapter 11-- What should my Blood Glucose values be? Chapter 12 -- What is Hemoglobin A1c? What should be my target goal? Chapter 13 -- What is Low Blood Sugar and How to Treat it Chapter 14 -- What should my Blood Pressure be? Chapter 15 -- What should my Cholesterol be? Chapter 17 -- Gestational Diabetes Chapter 18 Complications of Diabetes Heart disease
