Diabetes and its complications

This book will help you to find out the current prescribing pattern of oral diabetic medications with different co-morbidities with respect to diagnosis, cost of treatment and it also highlight the need for comprehensive management of diabetic patients, including lifestyle changes, dietary control, hypoglycemic agents, cardiovascular prevention, treatment of complications and co-morbidity. The complications are separated into macrovascular complications (coronary artery disease, peripheral arterial disease, and stroke) and microvascular complications (diabetic nephropathy, neuropathy, and retinopathy). It is important for physicians to understand the relationship between diabetes and vascular disease because the prevalence of diabetes continues to increase in the India, US and UK, and the clinical armamentarium for primary and secondary prevention of these complications is also expanding. The present book will provide the information regarding, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic neuropathy, macrovascular complications of diabetes and practice recommendations regarding treatment.