Marshall, S. M. Home, P. D. Rizza, R. A. text xxu New York Elsievier Science 1996 monographic eng

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xii, 391p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Contents: The Intrauterine environment and susceptibility to non-insulin dependent diabetes and the insulin resistance syndrome -- Autoantibodies to glutamate decarboxylase in insulin dependent diabetes mellitus -- Mitochondrial DNA and diabetes -- Recent trends in the epidemiology of type 1 diabetes -- Prospects for genetic manipulation in diabetes -- Diabetes and puberty -- Management of diabetes in the elderly -- The Diagnosis of diabetes: current criteria and rationale -- Prophylactic insulin treatment in pre-type-1-diabetes -- The Honeymoon period or remission phase of type 1 diabetes mellitus -- Hypoglycaemia update -- Information technology in diabetes care -- Measuring quality of life in diabetes -- New drugs for diabetes -- Glucose sensors in the mid-1990s -- The Insulin assay in the 1990s -- Regulation of carbohydrate metabolism during exercise -- Constant tracer infusion technique for assessment of glucose turnover in vivo: current status. -- Glucagon-like peptide-1 -- The Role of hypothalamic peptides in the neuroendocrine abnormalities of diabetes -- The Pathophysiology of diabetic retinopathy. edited by S. M. Marshall, P. D. Home and R. A. Rizza. Includes index. 044482426x 160707