1st Edition
Complications of Diabetes Mellitus A Global Perspective
Diabetes mellitus is a global epidemic with severe complications that can be of great cost. This book focuses on the complications of hypertension, heart attack or heart failure, stroke, blindness, nephropathy, neuropathy, amputations, and death, along with the prevalence and prevention of disease development. It explains distribution of the disease by age and gender, such as the development of type II diabetes in relation to obesity, which is more prevalent in younger age groups. Global mortality and costs of complications are significant, as the disease affects all ages, races, and ethnicities, making this book an invaluable resource for healthcare professionals and students everywhere.
Key Features
- A useful ready reference for students, physicians, and healthcare professionals detailing the latest diagnostic tests and treatments of diabetes and its complications
- Explains how heart failure and stroke are deadly complications of diabetes along with kidney failure and life-threatening infections
- Establishes how cancer is linked to diabetes – a fact many people are not aware of – this book details the six types of cancer that may result from the disease, along with an individualized focus on the different "areas" of issues that occur from diabetes
- Discusses the effect of diabetes on the minds of patients, in relation to depression, anxiety, panic, PTSD, eating disorders, delirium, and dementia
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Pathophysiology of Diabetes
Chapter 2: Metabolic Syndrome
Chapter 3: Prevalence, Mortality, and Risk Factors
Part II: Microvascular Complications of Diabetes
Chapter 4: Diabetic Neuropathy
Chapter 5: Diabetic Retinopathy
Chapter 6: Diabetic Nephropathy
Part III: Macrovascular Complications of Diabetes
Chapter 7: Hypertension
Chapter 8: Dyslipidemia
Chapter 9: Coronary Artery Disease
Chapter 10: Congestive Heart Failure
Chapter 11: Stroke
Chapter 12: Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes
Chapter 13: Other Complications of Diabetes
Chapter 14: Cancer
Biography
Dr. Jahangir Moini was assistant professor at Tehran University, Medical School, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, for nine years. For 18 years, he was the Director of Epidemiology for the Brevard County Health Department. For 15 years, he was the Director of Science and Health for Everest University in Melbourne FL. He was also a Professor of Science and Health at Everest for a total of 24 years. For 6 years, he was a Professor of Science and Health at Eastern Florida State College, but is now retired. Dr. Moini has been actively teaching for 39 years, and for 22 years, has been an international author of 47 books. His “Anatomy & Physiology for Health Professionals” has been translated into the Japanese and Korean languages.
Dr. Matthew Adams received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. During medical school, he also received an MBA from the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. During his residency at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Adams received training in Ophthalmology and completed a fellowship in Vitreoretinal Surgery at the Mayo Clinic. He now serves the community of Brevard County, Florida for Florida Eye Associates, where he performs VitreoRetinal and Cataract surgery.
Dr. Anthony LoGalbo is a Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist and Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Florida Tech in Melbourne, Florida, where he teaches graduate coursework and conducts applied research in the clinical psychology (PsyD) program. He is also the clinical director and primary supervisor of Florida Tech's Sports Concussion Management Program, and the clinical neuropsychology director at the Health First Florida Memory Disorder Clinic.
This book will be important to clinicians who take care of diabetes patients. I appreciate that it covers latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA), maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY), and complications of uncontrolled diabetes in pregnant women.
- Sharon Fung, PhD, APN, Cook County Health
