A Guide to Diabetes - Softcover

An up-to-date introduction to diabetes that aims to increase your understanding of diabetes with an overview of this complex disorder. Chapters cover: What is diabetes? Initial Diagnosis and early care; Dietary and drug treatment; Insulin treatment; Monitoring Glucose Levels; Hypoglycaemia; Acute Metabolic Complications of Diabetes; Long term chronic complications; Diabetes in pregnant women, children, the elderly and ethnic minorities; Living with Diabetes; Glossary. Bibliography