Overview
- A guide for diabetic patients to take care of their health
- Comprehensive in scope
- With numerous figures and tables
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 771)
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
With the basic platform set, Editor presents his views and advice to the readers, especially to diabetic patients suffering from T2DM, on the basis of his observations and information collected from other diabetics.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Part of a series titled Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, this is an overview of diabetes, including diagnosis, classification, pathophysiology, and complications. … the book is geared to patients with diabetes. … The short, readable chapters with their excellent and abundant references are the book’s best feature. … The book would benefit from more graphics, such as tables, figures, pictures, and summary boxes. This comprehensive overview of diabetes may be of interest to some patients with diabetes and some healthcare professionals.” (Rebecca Brown, Doody’s Review Service, February, 2013)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Shamim I. Ahmad, after obtaining his Master’s degree in Botany from Patna University, Bihar, India and his PhD in Molecular Genetics from Leicester University, England, joined Nottingham Polytechnic as Grade 1 lecturer and was subsequently promoted to SL post. Ahmad served for about 37 years at Nottingham Trent University (formerly Nottingham Polytechnic) before taking an early retirement to spend his time writing books and conducting full‑ime research. For more than three decades he worked on different areas of biology including thymineless death in bacteria, genetic control of nucleotide catabolism, development of anti‑IDS drugs, control of microbial infection of burns, phages of thermophilic bacteria and microbial flora of Chernobyl after the nuclear accident. But his primary interest, which started 27 years ago, is DNA damage and repair, particularly near UV photolysis of biological compounds, production of reactive oxygen species and their implications on human health including skin cancer and xeroderma pigmentosum. He is also investigating photolysis of non‑biological compounds such as 8‑methoxypsoralen+UVA, mitomycin C, and nitrogen mustard and their importance in psoriasis treatment and in Fanconi anemia. In 2003 he received a prestigious “Asian Jewel Award” in Britain for “Excellence in Education”. He is the Editor of Molecular Mechanisms of Ataxia Telangiectasia and Molecular Mechanisms of Cockayne Syndrome, published byvLandes Bioscience. He also edited Molecular Mechanisms of Fanconi Anemia, Molecular Mechanisms of Xeroderma Pigmentosum, Diseases of DNA Repair and Neurodegenerative Diseases, published by Landes Bioscience and Springer Science+Business Media.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Diabetes
Book Subtitle: An Old Disease, a New Insight
Editors: Shamim I. Ahmad
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5441-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5440-3Published: 03 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4672-3Published: 26 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5441-0Published: 12 April 2013
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 485
Topics: Biomedicine general, Diabetes