A Guide to Diabetes
Symptoms; Causes; Treatment; Prevention
Published on 30. June 2015
224 pages
978-1-84205-605-9 (ISBN)
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A comprehensive, up to date guide to handling diabetes. Also a help for families and supporters of diabeti.
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Katherine Wright
A Guide to Diabetes
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12/2003
Geddes & Grosset
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Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Medical Advice
- 1 WHAT IS DIABETES?
- The Background to Diabetes: Insulin, Glucose and the Provision of Energy
- Defining and Diagnosing Diabetes
- Categories of Diabetes (ADA Classification, 1997)
- Other Specific Forms of Diabetes Mellitus
- Conditions that Contribute to and are Closely Related to Diabetes
- 2 INITIAL DIAGNOSIS AND EARLY CARE
- Diagnosis and Referral
- Understanding and Managing Diabetes
- 3 DIETARY AND DRUG TREATMENT
- Dietary Modification or Nutrition Therapy
- Dietary Advice
- Oral Antidiabetic Drugs
- Injectable antidiabetic (non-insulin) drugs
- 4 INSULIN TREATMENT
- The Nature of Insulin
- Types of Insulin, According to Duration of Action
- Injecting Insulin
- Insulin Treatment Regimes
- Selecting the Insulin Regime and Starting Doses
- Obtaining and Storing Insulin
- Disposal of 'Sharps'
- Adjusting Insulin Doses
- Side-effects of Insulin Treatment (other than Hypoglycaemia)
- Intensive Insulin Therapy in People with Type 1 Diabetes
- Tight Control of Glycaemia in People with Type 2 Diabetes
- 5 MONITORING GLUCOSE LEVELS
- Home Blood Glucose Monitoring (HBGM)
- Clinical Monitoring of Blood Glucose Levels: Testing for HBA1c
- New Developments in Blood Glucose Monitoring
- Home Urine Testing (HUT)
- 6 HYPOGLYCAEMIA
- The Definition of Hypoglycaemia
- Immediate Causes of Hypoglycaemia
- Longer-term Causes of (Recurrent) Hypoglycaemia
- Events Within the Body During Hypoglycaemia
- Clinical Grades of Hypoglycaemia and Symptoms
- Factors that Affect Hypoglycaemia
- Prevention of Hypoglycaemia
- 7 ACUTE METABOLIC COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETES
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Diabetic Hyperosmolar Non-ketotic Syndrome (HONK)
- Lactic Acidosis
- 8 LONG-TERM CHRONIC COMPLICATIONS: MICROVASCULAR DISEASES
- Neuropathy (Nerve Damage)
- 9 LONG-TERM CHRONIC COMPLICATIONS: MACROVASCULAR DISEASES
- General Treatment and Prevention
- 10 DIABETES IN PREGNANT WOMEN, CHILDREN, THE ELDERLY AND ETHNIC MINORITIES
- Diabetes and Pregnancy
- Diabetes in Children
- Diabetes in the Elderly
- Diabetes in People from Ethnic Minority Groups
- 11 LIVING WITH DIABETES
- Psychological Aspects of Diabetes
- Exercise
- Coping with Illness and Infection
- Flu Vaccination
- Dental Care
- Travel and Holidays
- Diabetes and Driving
- Diabetes and Employment
- Alternative Therapies Which may be Helpful in Diabetes
- Scientific Research
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- Copyright
