The "bible" on diabetes mellitus is now in its Fourteenth Edition-thoroughly revised and updated by more than 80 noted experts from the Joslin Diabetes Center and other leading institutions worldwide. This edition includes a new eleven-chapter section on hormone action and the regulation of metabolism. The section on definition and pathogenesis now includes chapters on genetics, diabetes in Asia and Africa, and diabetes in U.S. minority groups. Other new chapters cover retinopathy, cardiovascular disease, wound healing, and treatment of women with diabetes. All of the Fourteenth Edition's figures have been completely updated.
The "bible" on diabetes mellitus is now in its Fourteenth Edition-thoroughly revised and updated by more than 80 noted experts from the Joslin Diabetes Center and other leading institutions worldwide. This edition includes a new eleven-chapter section on hormone action and the regulation of metabolism. The section on definition and pathogenesis now includes chapters on genetics, diabetes in Asia and Africa, and diabetes in U.S. minority groups. Other new chapters cover retinopathy, cardiovascular disease, wound healing, and treatment of women with diabetes. All of the Fourteenth Edition's figures have been completely updated.
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978-0-7817-2796-9 (9780781727969)
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SECTION I: BASIC MECHANISMS OF ISLET DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTION 19
SECTION II: HORMONE ACTION AND THE REGULATION OF METABOLISM 125
SECTION III: DIABETES: DEFINITION, GENETICS, AND PATHOGENESIS 329
SECTION IV: OBESITY AND LIPOPROTEIN DISORDERS 531
SECTION V: TREATMENT OF DIABETES MELLITUS 585
SECTION VI: BIOLOGY OF THE COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETES 793
SECTION VII: DIABETIC COMPLICATIONS: CLINICAL ASPECTS 885
SECTION VIII: HYPOGLYCEMIA AND ISLET CELL TUMORS 1145
Index 1189