Educationals
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Diabetes Reckoner |
| The management of diabetes is one of the most important subjects in clinical practice. In the Indian context, increasing urbanization, industrialization and changing lifestyles seem to be contributing to increasing prevalence of diabetes. | |
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Cardiovascular Disease in Diabetes |
| The risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is substantially increased in patients with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. In the coming decades, the burden of diabetic cardiovascular disease will increase substantially. With an estimated annual cost of diabetes care at rupees 90,200 million in India, there is an urgent need to implement preventive measures. | |
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Diabetic Foot Problems |
| This issue discusses Diabetic foot, which is one of the most dreaded complications of diabetes. Diabetic foot may be viewed as end point of diabetic neuropathy & peripheral vascular disease and amputation as the end point of diabetic foot. | |
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Diabetic Nephropathy |
| In this issue, Diabetic Nephropathy, a micro vascular complication of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes is discussed. As the leading cause of chronic renal failure, prevention of diabetic nephropathy is our best bet. Efforts directed towards preventing and/or delaying diabetic nephropathy by achieving tight glycemic control have met with promising results worldwide. | |
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Oral Hypoglycemic Agents |
| This book reviews the role of OHAs and its limitations. The elaboration on various OHAs and guidelines for their usage makes it useful for your day-to-day clinical practice. The book also contains details on OHA failure and its management. | |
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Advances in Insulin Therapy |
| Advances in Insulin Therapy highlights the ever changing role of insulin from that of decreasing the mortality of patients with type 1 diabetes to its increasing use in type 2 diabetes in preventing and delaying compactions of diabetes. Insulin clearly is the best studied and arguably the safest and most effective therapy for the treatment of diabetes. | |
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Insulin Therapy In Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus |
| Type 2 diabetes is characterized by the combination of insulin resistance and deficient secretion of insulin. This issue addresses the role of Insulin Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes. An attempt has been made to provide a rational approach to common goal of achieving good metabolic control to prevent and/or delay the complications of diabetes thereby improving the patient's quality of life. | |
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Sexual Dysfunction in Diabetes Mellitus |
| It is universally appreciated that long-standing diabetes is associated with sexual dysfunction in men, the state of inquiry into sexual dysfunction in diabetic women is rudimentary. This issue deals with Sexual Dysfunction in Diabetes, a problem, that has received attention, probably, inversely proportional to its magnitude. | |
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Diabetic Retinopathy |
| Chronic hyperglycemia of diabetes is associated with long-term damage, dysfunction, and failure of various organs, especially the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart, and blood vessels. This issue on Diabetic Retinopathy intends to be an eye-opener towards this potentially blinding complication of diabetes that truly deserves concerted and multidisciplinary approach. | |
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Insulin Desk Reference |
| ‘Insulin Desk Reference’ is a handy reference book providing the latest and the most relevant pharmacotherapeutic information on insulins and specific details about Magnus Novo Nordisk Insulins. | |
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Practical Aspects Of Insulin Therapy - Dr. Anil Kapur |
| Diabetes mellitus has been known since ancient times. The principle of management of diabetes hinges on achieving a healthy balance between food intake, exercise and “insulin effect”. | |
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Role Of Insulin In Type II Diabetes - Dr Anil Kapur |
| Role Of Insulin In Type II Diabetes - Dr Anil Kapur The aim of this booklet is to bring the usage of insulin in management of patients with Type 2 diabetes, in the proper perspective, which must not be viewed as an attempt to brush aside the value of diet control, exercise and oral agents. |
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Advances in Insulin Therapy - Dr Anil Kapur |
| Since the discovery of insulin in 1921 by Banting and Best, much has changed in the way insulin is made. This is a review of the clinical significance of these changes. | |
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Role of Metformin in Type 2 Diabetes - Dr Anil Kapur |
| Inspite of a long history of clinical use, misuse and prhaps abuse, it is only now that an understanding of the true role of metformin is emerging. When properly used in appropriately selected patients metformin is a very useful, highly effective and relatively safe drug. | |
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Diabetes & Infections - Dr Anil Kapur, Dr N S Moorthy |
| Persons with diabetes mellitus have a higher incidence of infections. These infections are often complicated and result in greater morbidity and mortality than anticipated in otherwise healthy individuals. | |
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