Diabetes Mellitus

Insights and Perspectives

Oluwafemi O. Oguntibeju

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9789535109396
• eBook ISBN:
  9789535170723
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Endocrinology & Metabolism

The fundamental treatment and management goals in diabetes mellitus are to control and normalize blood glucose levels and to prevent diabetic complications. It also includes maintaining normal growth and development and normal body weight. Proper diet, regular exercise, weight control and different therapeutic agents are the mainstays of diabetic care and management. Weight reduction and exercise have been shown to improve tissue sensitivity to insulin and allow its proper use by target tissues. It is obvious that medical management and goals of therapy for diabetes mellitus have changed since the publication of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial in 1993. Recent studies have shown that the risk of developing retinopathy can decrease by 76% in properly managed diabetic patients when compared to control group and that clinical and laboratory signs and symptoms of nephropathy and neuropathy can also decrease by 54 to 60%. Modern approaches to the management of diabetes mellitus embrace holistic options and this book addressed various approaches in the management of diabetes mellitus.

Table of contents

• Diabetes Mellitus - Insights and Perspectives
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 The Utility of Vitamins in the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Its Complications: A Public Health Perspective
• Chapter 2 Aldose Reductase Inhibitors as Potential Therapeutic Drugs of Diabetic Complications
• Chapter 3 Behavioral Problems and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Self and Parent Reports
• Chapter 4 GPR119 Agonists: A Novel Strategy for Type 2 Diabetes Treatment
• Chapter 5 The Role of Nutrition in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus
• Chapter 6 Can Lifestyle Factors of Diabetes Mellitus Patients Affect Their Fertility?
• Chapter 7 The Role of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Human Health and Disease Prevention
• Chapter 8 Diabetes Mellitus in Developing Countries and Case Series
• Chapter 9 Principles of Exercise and Its Role in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus
• Chapter 10 Hyperglycemia and Diabetes in Myocardial Infarction
• Chapter 11 Physical Activity in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus
• Chapter 12 Copper, Zinc and Magnesium in Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Treated with Metformin
• Chapter 13 Animal Models for Study of Diabetes Mellitus
• Chapter 14 Essentials of Diabetes Care in Family Practice
• Chapter 15 Spontaneous Diabetes Mellitus in Animals
• Chapter 16 A New Behavioral Model (Health Belief Model Combined with Two Fear Models): Design, Evaluation and Path Analysis of the Role of Variables in Maintaining Behavior
• Chapter 17 Development of Improved Animal Models for the Study of Diabetes