Individualized Diabetes Management : A Guide for Primary Care /: A Guide for Primary Care. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anthony Barnett, Jenny Grice.
• Authors: Barnett, Anthony; Grice, Jenny
• Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Overview of type 2 diabetes, epidemiology, complications and costs 3. Challenges to glycaemic control ("Deadly Triad" of progressive disease, clinical inertia and poor adherence to management plans), how these can be overcome and how these all interlink 4. Individualised management including individualised lifestyle plans and pharmacotherapy (as emphasised in ADA/EASD Guidelines) 5. Barriers to adherence (poor tolerability- particularly weight gain and hypoglycaemia) and how modern therapies may overcome some of these problems 6. Advantages and disadvantages of new therapies - discussing each in turn, and in context of drug combinations that will be acceptable to patients and help overcome clinical inertia and poor adherence 7. Importance of multi-professional care, education, development of individualised management plans etc.
• Publisher Details: CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (130 pages), (15 illustrations)
• Subjects: MEDICAL / Family & General Practice; MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315350578; 1315350572
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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