Your guide to understanding and dealing with type 2 diabetes
Subtitle: what you need to know
By: by Keith Souter
Series: Personal health guides; Personal health guides
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781783725786; 9781783725809; 9781849535427
Subjects: Non-insulin-dependent diabetes; Popular works; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Public Policy; Social Security; Social Services & Welfare
Other titles: Type 2 diabetes
Description: "Diabetes mellitus is a disorder where the body doesn't produce enough insulin, or doesn't react properly to the insulin it produces, causing a build-up of glucose in the blood. Type 2 diabetes often smoulders on for a long time before it is recognised and diagnosed. ... This book gives the basic information needed to understand what Type 2 diabetes is, how to recognise it, and, most essentially, how to manage it."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-235).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one: Understanding Type 2 diabetes (1. An overview of diabetes ; 2. The 'honey-sweet siphon': the history of diabetes ; 3. Metabolism and what goes wrong in diabetes ; 4. The symptoms of diabetes and how they come about ; 5. The reasons why complications occur); title: Part two: Dealing with Type 2 diabetes (6. How diabetes is diagnosed and managed ; 7. The complications of diabetes ; 8. Lifestyle changes to treat Type 2 diabetes ; 9. Drugs for Type 2 diabetes ; 10. Using the Life Cycle with Type 2 diabetes).