The Johns Hopkins guide to diabetes:for today and tomorrow

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Saudek Christopher D
Group Author: Shump Cynthia S; Rubin Richard R
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Publisher Address: Baltimore, MD
Publication Dates: 1997.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: A Johns Hopkins Press health book
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Carrier Form: xiii, 422 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0801855802 (alk. paper)
9780801855801 (alk. paper)
0801855810 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801855818 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: R587
CLC: R587.1
Call Number: R587.1/S255
Contents: Includes index.
Understanding diabetes -- Controlling diabetes -- Living with diabetes -- Complications -- Sexuality, pregnancy, and genetics -- The future of care.
Written by a team of Johns Hopkins practitioners, this accessible guide addresses everything about diabetes that patients need to know for good control and good health. The book offers detailed discussions of managing the disease with blood glucose monitoring, diet, exercise, and medications. 34 illustrations. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes provides comprehensive and reliable answers to the many questions asked by people with the disease as well as their families and friends. What are the differences between Type I and Type II diabetes, for example? How are the different forms of this d