Joslin's Diabetes Mellitus: Edited by C. Ronald Kahn ... [et Al.].

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Elliott Proctor Joslin, C. Ronald Kahn
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005 - Medical - 1209 pages

The "bible" on diabetes mellitus is now in its Fourteenth Edition—thoroughly revised and updated by more than 80 noted experts from the Joslin Diabetes Center and other leading institutions worldwide. This edition includes a new eleven-chapter section on hormone action and the regulation of metabolism. The section on definition and pathogenesis now includes chapters on genetics, diabetes in Asia and Africa, and diabetes in U.S. minority groups. Other new chapters cover retinopathy, cardiovascular disease, wound healing, and treatment of women with diabetes. All of the Fourteenth Edition's figures have been completely updated.

 

Contents

Alterations in Protein Metabolism
275
Clayton E Mathews and Edward H Leiter
291
Morphology
331
Susan BonnerWeir
341
George S Eisenbarth
399
Melissa K Cavaghan and Kenneth S Polonsky
425
Fed State
449
McCowen and Robert J Smith
496
Education in the Treatment of Diabetes
597
Principles of Insulin Therapy
659
Infection and Diabetes
1017
Harold E Lebovitz
1035
Caroline S Blaum and Jeffrey B Halter
1061
Julie Lund Sharpless
1069
Treatment of Diabetes in the Hospitalized Patient
1103
Economic and Social Costs
1111

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Studies
525
Sheila Collins Rexford S Ahima and Barbara B Kahn
533

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