Product Description: The management of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents is complex and poses a range of unique challenges. Treatment may involve weight reduction, lifestyle modification, exercise programs, and medications to treat hyperglycemia...read more

Product Description: Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes in youth, including evidence for & magnitude of the epidemic; pathophysiology in youth, case-finding criteria, & when to consider the possibility of type 2; how to diagnose & treat diabetes in children & adolescents.

Product Description: This book addresses a wide range of basic and clinical issues in the physiology and pharmacology of growth hormone. The volume is organized like a textbook. It begins with factors contributing to GH gene expression, the functional relationships of the GH receptor, molecular biological analysis of the GH-GH receptor complex and proceeds to describe the insulin-like growth factor axis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A guide to understanding and controlling diabetes explains what it is, shows readers how to control it through exercise, diet, insulin, and other medications, and discusses its possible complications. Reprint.