Diabetes: The Facts That Let You Regain Control of Your Life

＂Unlike most books about diabetes, this book is readable as astory--jampacked with exciting recent information about a diseasethat afflicts 100 million people.＂ --Leo P. Krall, MD, JoslinClinic and Harvard Medical School, President of the DiabetesResearch and Education Foundation Understanding diabetes is thefirst step a diabetic patient takes toward living a long, activelife. If you or someone close to you has been diagnosed withdiabetes, here, in lay terms, is a comprehensive explanation thatwill help you understand diabetes--and learn to cope with it.Specifically not a how-to guide, Diabetes presents clear, scientific coverage of how the body functions and how diabetesaffects its various systems. It candidly addresses manycontroversies in treatment and discusses important new informationon vascular damage caused by diabetes. Drs. Kilo and Williamsonclearly and carefully explain:
* Psychological aspects
* Diabetes and men
* Diabetes and women
* Choosing a doctor
* Diet and exercise
* Obesity
* Medication
* Stress
* Complications of diabetes
You will also find exciting information on new developments indiabetes research, such as a new class of drugs--aldose reductaseinhibitors--which could revolutionize diabetes treatment.

Charles Kilo, MD, is Associate Professor (Clinical) of Medicine atthe Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He has a large private medical practice, in which over 60percent of his patients have diabetes. Dr. Kilo is the author ofEducating the Diabetic Patient and Self Blood Glucose Monitoringfor the Person with Diabetes Mellitus. Joseph Williamson, MD, isProfessor of Pathology at the Washington University School ofMedicine and is a pathologist at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Drs.Kilo and Williamson are co-founders of the Kilo Diabetes &Vascular Research Foundation.