Diabetes Management in Primary Care

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 712 pages
• Published by: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Edition: 1st Edition March 1, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0781787629
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0781787628
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 2.1 pounds

Product Description
This book offers primary care physicians evidence-based guidelines for evaluating and treating all patients with diabetes. It covers all aspects of outpatient and hospital-based diabetes care for all age groups, and includes behavioral interventions for enhancing patient adherence. Coverage includes fine-tuning glycemic management with computerized self-blood glucose monitoring software, evaluating and treating patients with metabolic syndrome and polycystic ovary syndrome, managing mental illness in patients with diabetes, and prevention of microvascular and macrovascular complications. The book discusses newer insulin therapy protocols, insulin delivery devices such as pumps, pens, and inhaled insulin, and novel pharmacotherapies including incretin mimetics and DPP-IV inhibitors.

Reader Reviews
If you treat Diabetic patients you should get this book. Written by a diabetic Family Physician who understands that to treat diabetes you need to "think like a pancreas." This book was written to provide primary care doctors the tools we need to care for these challenging patients. I got this book the first week it was out and I haven't regreted it. With the explosion of Diabetes there are not enough consultant physicians (specialists) out there to care for all of these patients. Dr Unger provides the information we need to provide excellent care for our diabetic patients. I cannot praise this book enough. The only thing better is hear Dr Unger lecture on Diabetic Care in person.