This book, written in the popular Q and A format of the Your Questions Answered series, provides accessible, expert information for a primary care doctor or other member of the primary care team to be able to understand and treat patients with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Answers are presented in a succinct, readable style, with emphasis on evidence-based, up-to-date knowledge
1. Background to Diabetes
2. natural History, Glycaemic Control and Complications
3. clinical Presentation and Initial Management of Diabetes
4. dietary and Lifestyle Management
5. use of Oral Hypoglycaemic Agents
6. insulin Treatment
7. hypoglycaemia
8. problems With Glycaemic Control
9. decompensated Diabetes
10. organisation and Delivery of Diabetes Care
11. issues of Daily Life With Diabetes
12. reproduction and Sexual Function
13. macrovascular Disease and its Prevention
14. renal Disease in Diabetes
15. eye Disease in Diabetes
16. neuropathy
17. diabetic Foot and Peripheral Arterial Disease
18. other Complications and Accompaniments of Diabetes
19. stages of Change
20. smoking Cessation
Useful Resources References and Further Reading Glossary of Studies and Trials in Diabetes List of Patient Questions Index
