Type 2 Diabetes, Pre-Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes

   Pages 1-12

3. Guidelines and Classifications

   Pages 13-25

4. Exercise

   Pages 27-39

5. Nutrition

   Pages 41-55

6. Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome

   Pages 57-74

7. Oral Agents for Type 2 Diabetes

   Pages 75-92

8. Insulin Use

   Pages 93-116

9. Macrovascular Disease

   Pages 117-132

10. Microvascular Disease

    Pages 133-154

11. Diabetic Dyslipidemia

    Pages 155-170

12. Hypertension in Patients With Diabetes

    Pages 171-190

13. Glycemic Control

    Pages 191-204

14. Risk Reduction in Patients With Diabetes

    Pages 205-223

15. Back Matter

    Pages 225-247

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Type 2 Diabetes, Pre-Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome: The Primary Care Guide to Diagnosis and Management is an important addition to the literature for primary care phy- cians. It covers concisely and with attention to clinical relevance the full spectrum of insulin resistance and diabetes. This book gives a practical, no-nonsense approach to understanding the basic pathophysiology of diabetes and the metabolic syndrome, an approach to treatment with oral agents and insulin, and an approach to risk factor management. By putting all this information in one readable text, Dr. Codario provides a service to us all, facilitating the understanding of a body of knowledge that cannot be obtained through any attempt to read portions of much larger textbooks in the field. This textbook will serve as a resource for medical students, residents in family medicine and internal medicine, and attending physicians who wish to update and improve their kno- edge in the field of diabetes and the newly emerging science of the metabolic syndrome. In addition, it allows attending physicians the opportunity to obtain Continuing Medical E- cation credits while performing self-directed learning. At the end of reading Type 2 Dia- tes, Pre-Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome: The Primary Care Guide to Diagnosis and Management, the physician should feel comfortable and confident that they have acquired a solid understanding of the latest information in the field, and by so doing, should be better able to take excellent care of patients with diabetes and the metabolic syndrome.

• Diabetes
• care
• insulin
• management
• medical education
• nutrition
• physiology
• treatment

From the reviews:

"The book is didactic, well laid out. . .it focuses on all the points raise by experts. . .[it] certainly gives a current answer to specific clinical questions that will arrive in any consulting room. . .with its engaging practicality and its focus on day-to-day therapeutic problems (to say nothing of the continuing medical education questions that follow each chapter), it will provide a guide for doctors and nurses meeting a patient who mentions the metabolic syndrome."-New England Journal of Medicine

"This book is a richly informative, well organized and well referenced guide to the diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus. The information is very relevant to the practicing physician. The book covers current knowledge with recommendations based upon recent medical
literature. There are ample references. Category 1 CME credit can also be obtained as one reads through the book."-Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal

"This book is a comprehensive review of all the issues related to type 2 diabetes mellitus. … Each chapter is set up in a similar way, with recommendations clearly marked in lists or tables to allow them to be quickly found by skimming the chapter. … I learned a great deal reading this book. … You will definitely know more about type 2 diabetes after you read this book." (Alan G. Kaplan, Canadian Family Physician, Vol. 52, October, 2006)

• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia

  Ronald A. Codario

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