Endocrinology Adult and Pediatric: Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity

Meet the growing challenges of diabetes and obesity management with Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity, a compilation of chapters from the highly acclaimed two-volume textbook, Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric. Never before available as a stand-alone offering, this derivative book will enable you to put today's best endocrinology practices in diabetes and obesity management to work for your patients. By Gordon C Weir, MD; J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL and Leslie J. De Groot, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology and Committee on Immunology, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Table of Contents: 1. Appetite Regulation and Thermogenesis 2. Obesity: The Problem and Its Management 3. Genetic Syndromes Associated with Obesity 4. Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Other Eating Disorders 5. Development of the Endocrine Pancreas 6. Biosynthesis, Processing, and Secretion of the Islet Hormones: Insulin, Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (Amylin), Glucagon, Somatostatin, and Pancreatic Polypeptide 7. Insulin Secretion 8. The Mechanisms of Insulin Action 9. Glucagon and Glucagon-like Peptides 10. Regulation of Intermediatory Metabolism During Fasting and Feeding 11. Role of the Adipocyte in Metabolism and Endocrine Function 12. Lipodystrophy Syndromes 13. Classification and Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus 14. Type 1 (Insulin-dependent) Diabetes Mellitus: Etiology, Pathogenesis, Prediction, and Prevention 15. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Natural History 16. Lipoprotein Metabolism and the Treatment of Lipid Disorders 17. Hyperglycemia Secondary to Nondiabetic Conditions and Therapies 18. The Metabolic Syndrome 19. Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Adults 20. Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Coma 21. Hypoglycemia and Hypoglycemic Syndromes 22. Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 23. Management of Diabetes Mellitus in Children 24. Pancreatic and Islet Transplantation 25. Diabetes Control, Long-Term Complications, and Large Vessel Disease 26. Diabetic Eye Disease 27. Diabetes Mellitus: Neuropathy 28. Diabetic Nephropathy 29. Diabetic Foot and Vascular Complications 30. Diabetes Mellitus and Pregnancy