Overview
- Revises and expands on classic earlier editions, providing a comprehensive text on diabetes mellitus
- Covers all major topics including glucose metabolism, diagnosis and epidemiology, genetics, management and prevention
- Provides a global perspective on diabetes mellitus, diabetic syndromes and related disorders
- Delivers expertise in diabetes research and treatment, edited by a leading figure in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
The third edition of this important work is a timely update to the comprehensive textbook first published in 2002 and reissued in a second edition in 2010. The past few years have witnessed major developments in our understanding of diabetes and in therapeutic approaches to this disease and its numerous complications. Thus, all chapters have been significantly revised and updated with current evidence and best practices, and four brand new chapters are included, discussing the potential role of vitamin D in the pathogenesis of diabetes, peculiarities of diabetes in the elderly, oral manifestations of diabetes, and the current state of bariatric surgery.
Written by an international group of experts and carefully edited by a leading authority on the subject, Principles of Diabetes Mellitus, Third Edition is an invaluable resource for researchers and physicians of all specialties, as well as medical students and investigators of all aspects of diabetes, who deal withan illness that has reached epidemic proportions.
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Table of contents (55 entries)
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Front Matter
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History
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Diagnosis and Epidemiology of Diabetes; Special Populations
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Genes and Diabetes
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Diabetes Syndromes
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Leonid Poretsky, MD, Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Associate Chairman for Research, Department of Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, Professor of Medicine, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Principles of Diabetes Mellitus
Editors: Leonid Poretsky
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18741-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Reference Module Medicine
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18740-2Published: 26 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18741-9Published: 07 July 2017
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XXIX, 1066
Number of Illustrations: 96 b/w illustrations, 101 illustrations in colour
Topics: Diabetes, Endocrinology, Primary Care Medicine