In Practice Series Andrew J Krentz Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, UK Clifford J Bailey Head of Diabetes Research, Aston University, Birmingham, UK £18.95,  978-1-85315-635-9,  212pp,  Paperback,  February 2005

Review of previous edition in Nursing Standard, January 2002
If you want concise, encompassing information on diabetes, this book does it with an intense, yet impressive style . It is full of excellent key points, graphs, subtitles and further reading . a very good book.

'This is a "must buy" for the bookshelf of all health care professionals who have anything to do with diabetes.This very affordable book is beautifully presented with highlighted teaching points and a brilliant "Quick Reference Section" which contains excellent figures and algorithms.it is a clear, concise, comprehensive and contemporary practical guide to type 2 diabetes.' Practical Diabetes review of the first edition

Type 2 diabetes is on the increase and becoming an increasingly common part of the GP's workload. Here is the new revised and updated edition covering recent developments. Contents includes: diagnosis and assessment, principles of management, microvascular complications, and macrovascular disease.

Recommended to all those involved in the management of type 2 diabetes - hospital diabetes specialist physicians, primary care physicians and all members of the diabetes care team such as diabetes specialist nurses, dieticians, pharmacists and medical students.

Contents:
The burden of type 2 diabetes, Pathophysiology, Classification, Diagnosis and Assessment, Principles of Management, Microvascular Complications, Macrovascular Disease, Non-pharmacological Treatment, Pharmacological Treatment (a-glucosidase inhibitors, sulphonylureas and meglitinides, metformin and the thiazolidinediones, insulin) and a Quick Reference section.

Other Titles in the In Practice Series
RSM Press Endocrinology Titles
RSM Press Geriatric Medicine Titles

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