Diabetes Demystified A Self-Teaching Guide

Solve the mystery of diabetes Diabetes Demystified sorts through the many types, symptoms, causes, tests, and treatments associated with diabetes, delivering sound advice on how to understand, manage, and prevent type 1 and type 2 diabetes. You will get tips for choosing the best treatment plan, finding the right practitioner, and adhering to an effective diet plan. The book includes recommendations for pregnant diabetics, postmenopausal diabetics, children, and elderly people.

Umesh Masharani, M.D., is an associate clinicalprofessor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and associate chief of the Diabetes Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco.

Introduction
What is Diabetes?
What Kind of Diabetes Do You Have?
What Causes Type 2Diabetes?
-Diet for Diabetics
Exercise Guidelines for Diabetics
Vitamins and Herbs for Diabetics
Drugs in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes. New versus Old v
Insulin Therapy: New versus old types of Insulin
Insulin Pump
What about Islet Cell Transplants?
What should my Blood Glucose values be?
What is Hemoglobin A1c? What should be my target goal?
What is Low Blood Sugar and How to Treat it
What should my Blood Pressure be?
What should my Cholesterol be?
Gestational Diabetes

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Diabetes Demystified A Self-Teaching Guide

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