Diabetes in Old Age

Klappentext Several major clinical trials involving older people with diabetes have provided a much greater evidence base from which to draw clinical therapeutic decisions! and several new themes in geriatric diabetes are emerging. This new edition of the popular Diabetes in Old Age features up-to-date and comprehensive information about the key aspects of managing older people with diabetes! predominantly Type 2 diabetes. It covers standard problems! such as diagnosis! and topics specific to the elderly - falls! dementia and nursing home care.Diabetes in Old Age 3e provides guidance! best practice points and key learning outcomes in each area covered! and identifies the published evidence base for each major conclusion. Different approaches to optimising diabetes care in the community! primary care and secondary care health care arenas are presented. The role of the diabetes specialist nurse in diabetes care is also covered.Diabetes in Old Age 3e is essential reading for diabetologists! diabetes specialist nurses! primary care physicians! general physicians and geriatricians! podiatrists and dieticians with an interest in diabetes! as well as all health professionals engaged in the delivery of diabetes care! including social services and health professionals providing care to older people Zusammenfassung Several major clinical trials involving older people with diabetes have provided a much greater evidence base from which to draw clinical therapeutic decisions! and several new themes in geriatric diabetes are emerging. This new edition of the popular Diabetes in Old Age features up-to-date and comprehensive information about the key aspects of managing older people with diabetes! predominantly Type 2 diabetes. It covers standard problems! such as diagnosis! and topics specific to the elderly - falls! dementia and nursing home care.Diabetes in Old Age 3e provides guidance! best practice points and key learning outcomes in each area covered! and identifies the published evidence base for each major conclusion. Different approaches to optimising diabetes care in the community! primary care and secondary care health care arenas are presented. The role of the diabetes specialist nurse in diabetes care is also covered.Diabetes in Old Age 3e is essential reading for diabetologists! diabetes specialist nurses! primary care physicians! general physicians and geriatricians! podiatrists and dieticians with an interest in diabetes! as well as all health professionals engaged in the delivery of diabetes care! including social services and health professionals providing care to older people Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY.1. Pathophysiology of diabetes in the elderly (Graydon S. Meneilly).2 Diabetes-related risk factors in older people (Stephen Colagiuri and Daniel Davies).PART II: SCREENING AND DIAGNOSIS.3. Diabetes in the elderly; diagnosis! testing and screening (Simon Croxson).PART III: VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS.4. Peripheral arterial disease in old people with diabetes (Leocadio R. Manas! Cristina A. Bouzon and Marta C. Rodriquez).5. Coronary heart disease (Ahmed H. Abdelhafiz).6. Stroke and diabetes (Janice E. O´Connell and Christopher S. Gray).7. Diabetes-related renal disease in older people (M Latana A. Munang and John M! Starr).8. Management of eye disease and visual loss (Nina Tumosa).9. The diabetic foot (Andrew J. M. Boulton and Matthew J. Young).10. Diabetic neuropathy (Solomon Tesfaye).11. Erectile dysfunction (Tamás Varkonyi and Peter Kempler).PART IV: TREATMENT AND CARE ISSUES.12. Metabolic risk factors! obesity and cardiometabolic syndrome (Giuseppe Paolisso and Raffaele Marfella).13. Perspectives on diabetes care in old age: a focus on frailty (Andrej Zeyfang and Jeremy D. Walston).14. Metabolic decompensation in the elderly (Giuseppe Paolisso and Michelangela Barbieri).15. Nutritional perspectives: diabet...

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• Authors: Alan J. Sinclair, SINCLAIR ALAN J
• Assisted by: Alan J. Sinclair (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2009
• EAN: 9780470065624
• ISBN: 978-0-470-06562-4
• No. of pages: 500
• Series: Diabetes in Practice; Diabetes in Practice
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General