Contents

EVIDENCE
What Evidence?
Using Evidence to Answer Clinically Important Questions: What is the Prognosis?
How Should Diagnostic Tests be Chosen and Used?
How Should a Particular Problem Be Managed? Incorporating Evidence about Therapies into Practice
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

DEFINITION AND IMPORTANCE OF DIABETES MELLITUS
What is Diabetes?
Short-Term Clinical Consequences of Diabetes in Adults
Diagnosis and Short-Term Clinical Consequences of Diabetes in Children and Adolescent

ETIOLOGIC CLASSIFICATION OF DIABETES
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
What is Gestational Diabetes?

PREVENTION AND SCREENING FOR DM
Early Detection and Prevention of Diabetes Mellitus

STRATEGIES FOR LOWERING GLUCOSE LEVELS
Education and Home Glucose Monitoring
Weight Loss in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Currently Available Oral Hypoglycemic Agents for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Alternative Therapy: The Role of Selected Minerals, Vitamins, Fiber, and Herbs in Treating Hyperglycemia
Insulin for Treating Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Management of Pregnant Women
Diabetes Management in the Elderly
Hypoglycemia

LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF DIABETES
Eye Disease
Kidney Disease
Peripheral Nerve Disease
Cardiovascular Diseases
Diseases of the Feet: Foot Ulcers and Amputations in People with Diabetes Mellitus
Classification and Risk of Musculoskeletal Impairment Associated with Diabetes
Erectile Dysfunction
Diabetes and the Gastrointestinal Tract

DELIVERY OF CARE
The Delivery of Diabetes Care