An up-to-date introduction to diabetes that aims to increase your understanding of diabetes with an overview of this complex disorder. Chapters cover: What is diabetes? Initial Diagnosis and early care; Dietary and drug treatment; Insulin treatment; Monitoring Glucose Levels; Hypoglycaemia; Acute Metabolic Complications of Diabetes; Long term chronic complications; Diabetes in pregnant women, children, the elderly and ethnic minorities; Living with Diabetes; Glossary. Bibliography
| ISBN: | 9781842051559 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 2003 |
| Author: | Katherine Wright |
| Publisher: | Geddes & Grosset an imprint of The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 221 pages |
| Genres: |
Popular medicine and health |