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" The Johns Hopkins guide to diabetes : "
Christopher D. Saudek, Richard R. Rubin, Cynthia S. Shump.
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BL
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959332
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b713702
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Saudek, Christopher D.
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The Johns Hopkins guide to diabetes : : for today and tomorrow /\ Christopher D. Saudek, Richard R. Rubin, Cynthia S. Shump.
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Baltimore, MD :: Johns Hopkins University Press,, 1997.
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A Johns Hopkins Press health book
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xiii, 422 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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0801855802
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: 0801855810
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: 9780801855801
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: 9780801855818
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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1. The Diagnosis of Diabetes: Making It and Hearing It -- 2. Types of Diabetes -- 3. Goals of Treatment and How to Reach Them -- 4. Blood Glucose Monitoring -- 5. Hypoglycemia -- 6. Introduction to Nutrition Therapy: Planning and Understanding the Diet -- 7. Dietary Health for Type II Diabetes -- 8. Dietary Health for Type I Diabetes -- 9. Special Considerations in Nutrition Therapy -- 10. Exercise and Diabetes -- 11. Treating Type II Diabetes with Oral Hypoglycemics -- 12. Treating Diabetes with Insulin -- 13. Types of Insulin -- 14. External Insulin Pumps -- 15. The Emotional Side of Diabetes -- 16. Families Who Live with Diabetes -- 17. Balancing Your Social Life, Your Work Life and Diabetes -- 18. Dealing with Psychological Problems -- 19. Interacting with Health Care Professionals -- 20. Interacting with the Health Care System -- 21. Employment and Diabetes -- 22. Systemic Symptoms -- 23. Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Coma -- 24. Hardening of the Arteries.
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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 disease diagnosed and treated? Can diabetes that develops during pregnancy become a permanent condition? Can diabetes ever be managed with diet and exercise alone? Written by a team of Johns Hopkins specialists, this authoritative and easy-to-read guide addresses everything about diabetes which patients need to know for good control and good health.
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Diabetes, Popular works.
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Diabetes Mellitus, Popular Works.
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Diabetes.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.4/62
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RC660.4.S28 1997
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WK 810 S214 1997
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Rubin, Richard R.
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Shump, Cynthia S.
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Guide to diabetes
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