Product Description: Addressing a topic of utmost importance in the field, this text addresses the epidemiology, diagnosis, assessment, and management of patients with metabolic syndrome-focusing on implications for cardiovascular disease risk. With an abundance of clearly organized tables, flowcharts, and practice guidelines, this blue-ribbon source succinctly analyzes recent clinical trials, compares and assesses recent and emerging therapies, and provides recommendations for the improved assessment and treatment of patients, while supplying a state-of-the-art overview of approaches to optimize and enhance patient care...read more

Product Description: This series of books is aimed at the primary care market and aims to provide useful up-to-date information on key subject areas of interest and debate in clinical practice. The aim is to provide a full-color overview of disease areas (or ‘symptoms') using a modern artwork program, useful ‘pull-out quotes' to highlight key areas of discussion and real-life ‘clinical cases...read more

Product Description: Type 2 Diabetes in Practice, second edition has been devised as a means of presenting clearcut and accessible opinion-leader advice and summary facts relevant to everyday practice.This book confronts Type 2 Diabetes, a 'modern-age epidemic' currently estimated to affect nearly 200 million people worldwide...read more

Product Description: While diabetes can usually be well-controlled using modern therapies, metabolic emergencies inevitably occur. This book provides an easy-to-read yet comprehensive account of emergencies in diabetes conveniently collected into one volume...read more

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Product Description: Churchill's Pocketbook of Diabetes is the only practical pocketbook written for the non-specialist health care worker in regular contact with diabetic patients. It's designed to help workers make decisions on the day-to-day management of patients and answer questions about the effect and implications of the disease...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This pocket-sized book in the popular Color Guides series features color photos illustrating symptoms and complications of diabetes, plus concise yet appropriately detailed text. The emphasis is firmly on clinical aspects of diabetes although insights into etiology and pathophysiology are included wherever possible...read more