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A Touch of Diabetes The most up-to-date, easy-to-read guide for managing Type 2 diabetes. New research breakthroughs have made diabetes management more personalized and proactive than ever before. Now you can control your diabetes, prevent complications, and still enjoy a wide variety of foods and a flexible exercise program. If you need the help of oral medication, a number of effective new choices are available. This completely revised and updated guide, written by three leading diabetes experts, shows you how to take advantage of these advancements in diabetes care and easily make the lifestyle changes necessary to ensure your health. In plain language, this book provides the latest information, including: How to find the best eating plan for you How to develop a simple exercise program that works Which of the new oral medications may be right for you Monitoring your health Tips to lower your blood glucose levels How to detect and treat complications. This comprehensive, easy-to-read book also offers advice on coping with stress, keeping a diabetes diary, and where to turn when you need more information.
As I read this unique volume on diabetes and pregnancy edited by Lois Jovanovic, I was struck by two themes that run throughout these collected chapters. First, this volume provides an excellent assessment of past problems, present management, and future challenges presented by dia betes in pregnancy. Orury's unique, longitudinal experience with diabetes iIi pregnancy provides the reader with an important overview, as does Coetzee's discussion of gestational diabetes. Current problems-deter mining the etiology and prevention of congenital malformations in infants of diabetic mothers (10M), assessment of antepartum fetal condition, management of pregnant patients with diabetic retinopathy, re...
For women, diabetes compounds the problems caused by puberty, marriage, pregnancy, and menopause, yet this bestselling classic remains the only book to address these unique problems. In this authoritative guide, women will find creative and compassionate solutions to complex health and life concerns in their increasingly stressful lifestyles.
Over the last quarter century or so, specialization within obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics has resulted in the development of the disciplines of maternal-fetal medicine and neonatology, respectively. A primary focus of maternal-fetal medicine has been to understand the mechanism(s) of premature delivery and develop treatment modalities for improving the length of gestation. A primary focus of neonatology has been to under stand the causes of respiratory distress in the neonate. Success has resulted, not only in the lengthening of gestation, but an improved understanding of the causes and treatment of neonatal respiratory disease. With increasing success has come the necessity to un...
Here, the author clearly guides you through the necessary steps to controlling your gestational diabetes and reducing the risks for both you and your child.
The breadth of research efforts represented by the many excellent papers in these proceedings is an eloquent testimonial to the idea of one man Dr. Josiah Brown-to whose memory this volume is dedicated. His tragic and unexpected loss in a swimming accident in August 1985 brought to an abrupt close a long and distinguished career as a physician and scientist. The possibility of using fetal pancreas tissue for transplantation into insulin-deficient diabetic recipients had intrigued Dr. Brown for several years prior to 1972, when he began in earnest to assemble a research team to explore this idea in detail. He felt that improvements in the formulation and administration of insulin (even the la...
This book reviews the scientific basis for nutrition risk criteria used to establish eligibility for participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The volume also examines the specific segments of the WIC population at risk for each criterion, identifies gaps in the scientific knowledge base, formulates recommendations regarding appropriate criteria, and where applicable, recommends values for determining who is at risk for each criterion. Recommendations for program action and research are made to strengthen the validity of nutrition risk criteria used in the WIC program.