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• Title:ABC of diabetes / Peter J. Watkins.
  
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• Author/Creator:Watkins, Peter J.
  
• Published/Created:London : BMJ Publishing Group, 2003.
  

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  • Call Number: WK810 .W38 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: WK810 .W38 2003
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Diabetes.
  
• Medical Subjects: Diabetes Mellitus
  
• Edition:5th ed.
  
• Description:vii, 101 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm.
  
• Series:ABC of.
  
• Summary:The fifth edition of this well-established introduction to diabetes has been completely revised and updated, with specific attention given to the new delivery of care, and greater coverage of the different insulins.
  
• Notes:Previous ed.:1998.
  Includes index.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-94) and index.
  
• ISBN:0727916939 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Introduction
  1 What is diabetes?
  2 Clinical presentation: why is diabetes so often missed?
  3 Aims of treatment: a healthy lifestyle
  4 Treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus
  5 Insulin treatment
  6 Blood glucose monitoring: optimising diabetic control
  7 Unstable Type 1 diabetic patient
  8 Hypoglycaemia
  9 Diabetic ketoacidosis and management of diabetes during surgery
  10 Diabetic complications: cause and prevention
  11 Retinopathy
  12 Peripheral neuropathies
  13 Autonomic neuropathy
  14 Mononeuropathies and acute painful prevention
  15 Diabetic foot
  16 Diabetic neuropathy
  17 Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, lipids, and myocardial infarction
  18 Pregnancy
  19 Organisation of diabetic care: primary-secondary care interface
  20 Practical problems
  App. 1 Further information
  Index.