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- Editors:
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Joel F. Habener
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Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
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Mehboob A. Hussain
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Department of Medicine, Clinical and Molecular Endocrinology, New York University Medical Center, New York
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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- Catherine Postic, Mark A. Magnuson
Pages 351-362
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- Alberto Hayek, Gillian M. Beattie, Fred Levine
Pages 373-400
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Back Matter
Pages 401-412
About this book
Diabetes mellitus is rapidly increasing in prevalence throughout both developed and developing countries. The social and economic burden of this disease is estimated to cost 14 billion dollars worldwide. In the USA alone, 15 million individuals are diabetic, nearly half of them unaware of their condition. Complications of diabetes mellitus are the leading causes for blindness, limb amputation and chronic renal failure and kidney transplantation in industrialized countries. Further, diabetes mellitus per se and the metabolic derangement associated with diabetes are important risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Diabetes, as defined by an elevated fasting blood glucose level is presently subdivided in etiologically distinct groups. The most prevalent being type 2 (adult onset) diabetes characterized by insulin resistance and failure of the ~-cell to supply insulin in amounts sufficient to meet the body's needs. Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes, most commonly with an onset during childhood and adolescence, is caused by an auto-immune destruction of the pancreatic ~-cells. The causations of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes involve a combination of complex genetic traits and environmental influences. A third category are the mature onset diabetes of the young (MODY). This comparatively small group of patients (-10% of diabetes) presents relative early in life «30 years of age) compared to the more common late onset type 2 diabetes.
Reviews
`A very interesting text for both research and clinical endocrinologists.'
Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, 15:4 (2002)
Editors and Affiliations
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Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Joel F. Habener
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Department of Medicine, Clinical and Molecular Endocrinology, New York University Medical Center, New York
Mehboob A. Hussain