Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced.
This book is a comprehensive guide to the management of Type 2 diabetes mellitus, with a focus on associated disorders and comorbidities.
Beginning with an explanation of hyperglycaemia, Type 2 diabetes, and pathophysiology, the following chapters cover associated cardiovascular, renal, oncological, and autoimmune system disorders.
The book concludes with discussion on management of Type 2 diabetes in special situations such as during Ramadan and in patients with liver disease, and optimisation of risk factors.
Key points
- Comprehensive guide to management of Type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Focus on associated disorders and comorbidities
- Discusses management of Type 2 diabetes during Ramadan and in patients with liver disease
- Includes clinical images and figures to enhance text
Vishal Gupta MD MRCP
Consultant Endocrinologist and Metabolic Physician, Director, VG-ADVANTAGE Diabetes Thyroid & Endocrine Centre; Honorary Consultant, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- From hyperglycaemia to defining type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Does it boil down to insulin resistance versus beta cell failure, focus on pathophysiology and co-relation to therapeutics
- Beyond diabetic dyslipidemia
- Is diabetes in young a separate entity?
- Unmet cardiovascular mortality in T2DM
- Hypertension
- Coronary heart disease (CAD)
- Heart failure (HF)
- Stroke
- The reality behind assessing renal function
- Is diabetes associated with risk of developing cancer?
- Autoimmune associations with type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus, immunity and infection
- Role of diet, does it matter?
- Individualised approach based glycosylated hemoglobin management?
- How sacrosanct is HbA1c target of 7 and why even now?
- Individualized diabetes management in patients with chronic kidney disease
- Management of type 2 DM in special situations like Ramadan and liver disease
- Optimising risk factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus