Diabetes and cardiovascular disease

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: NetLibrary, Inc.
Group Author: Johnstone Michael T.; Veves Aristidis.
Published: Humana Press,
Publisher Address: Totowa, N.J.
Publication Dates: c2005.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Contemporary cardiology
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1385/1592599087
Carrier Form: xvii, 641 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 1592599087 (electronic bk.)
9781592599080 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: R587
CLC: R587
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Effects of insulin on the vascular system -- Effects of diabetes and insulin resistance on endothelial functions -- Diabetes and advanced glycoxidation end-products -- The renin-angiotensin system in diabetic cardiovascular complications -- PPARs and their emerging role in vascular biology, inflammation, and atherosclerosis -- Diabetes and thrombosis -- Role of estrogens in vascular disease in diabetes: lessons learned from the polycystic ovary syndrome -- Poly (ADP-Ribose) polymerase activation and nitrosative stress in the development of cardiovascular disease in diabetes -- Adiponectin and the cardiovascular system -- Nitric oxide and its role in diabetes mellitus -- Diabetes and atherosclerosis -- The use of animal models to study diabetes and atherosclerosis and potential anti-atherosclerotic therapies -- The metabolic syndrome and vascular disease -- Diabetes and hypertension -- Diabetes and dyslipidemia -- Diabetic retinopathy -- Diabetes nephropathy -- Diabetic neuropathy -- Microcirculation of the diabetic foot -- Epidemiology of peripheral vascular disease -- Noninvasive methods to assess vascular function and pathophysiology -- Peripheral vascular disease in patients with diabetes mellitus -- Therapeutic interventions to improve endothelial function in diabetes -- Preoperative assessment and perioperative management of the surgical patient with diabetes mellitus -- Diabetes and percutaneous interventional therapy -- Cardiac surgery and diabetes mellitus -- Heart failure and cardiac dysfunction in diabetes -- Diabetes mellitus and heart disease.