Current Trends in Diabetes

Diabetes is a disease that occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to control the amount of glucose in the blood.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.

Divided into six sections, the manual begins with an overview of diagnosis and classification, followed by discussion on epidemiology and aetiopathogenesis.

Section four covers comorbidities and complications of diabetes including hyper- and hypoglycaemia, heart failure, foot ulcers, and diabetic retinopathy. The final sections examine recent advances and technologies.

The detailed text is further enhanced by clinical photographs, diagrams and tables to assist learning.

Key points

• Comprehensive guide to latest advances in diagnosis and management of diabetes
• Discusses diagnosis and classification, epidemiology and aetiopathogenesis
• Covers many different comorbidities and complications
• Highly illustrated with clinical photographs, diagrams and tables

Viswanathan Mohan MD PhD DSc FRCP FNA FACE FTWAS MACP
Principal Investigator, President and Chief of Diabetes Research, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chairman and Chief Diabetologist, Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

MA Shekar MD FRCP
Director, Chowdaiah Medical Centre and Apoorva Diabetes Foundation, Mysuru; Former-Director, Karnataka Institute of Endocrinology and Research, Bengaluru; Former-Professor of Medicine and Head (I/C), Department of Endocrinology, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Mysuru, Karnataka, India

Gundu HR Rao PhD
Emeritus Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Lillehei Heart Institute, Institute of Engineering Medicine, University of Minnesota, USA