Over 20 million people in the United States have diabetes, a metabolic disorder characterized by the body's lack of production or ineffective use of insulin, and the rate is on the rise. Diabetes can cause acute, as well as long-term complications when not properly controlled. Some of the complications may include coma, cardiovascular disease, renal failure, blindness, nerve damage, vascular damage, and poor healing which can lead to amputation. Though there is no cure for either Type I or Type II

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About the Author

Vivian Fonseca, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology Tullis Tulane Alumni Chair in Diabetes Chief, Section of EndocrinologyTulane University Health Sciences CenterNew Orleans, L.A.

Product Details

• Series: Oxford American Endocrinology Library
• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (March 29, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195382110
• ISBN-13: 978-0195382112
• ISBN-13: 9780195382112
• eText ISBN: 9780199700349