Recent Advances in Diabetes

This book focuses on recent advances in diabetes. Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. Glucose comes from the foods you eat. Diabetes and its complications remain one of the most contemporary challenge globally and national. Not only the ravages of diabetes are relentless, but also the advances in the prevention care and path breaking research in this disease. This compendium of recent advances in diabetes has really captured in 12 chapters, the important epoch making advances in diabetes in the current times. One finds latest advances in classification of diabetes, the new concept on dirty dozen and “treacherous thirteen” of diabetes. The study of genomics in diabetes opens a newer vista for clinicians and researchers. Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in type II diabetes is really a contemporary challenge with huge treatment avenues and this has been covered extensively. The chapter on Ramadan fasting for persons with diabetes gives very important clinical practical tips. The newer and upcoming antidiabetic drugs and siphoning blood glucose are novel therapies that find place of pride in this book. Gut microbiata and type 2 diabetes and the micro and macrovascular complications are very well covered. This book offers a crisp and balanced overview of the pathophysiology as well as management of diabetes to not only the beginners but also for the established clinicians having a thirst for research and detail.