More than 85% of people with diabetes receive their diabetes care in the primary care setting. With the busy primary care practitioner in mind, Everyday Diabetes in Primary Care: A Case-Based Approach offers dozens of diabetes cases in an easy-to-digest format each representing a common clinical question that clinicians face in this common and complex area. For every case, fellowship-trained diabetologist Dr. Jay Shubrook shares his considerable expertise, providing authoritative, real-world guidance for your day-to-day management of patients with diabetes.

Uses commonly seen cases to introduce each problem and provide a framework for building a diagnostic or therapeutic plan

Explores such key topics as clinical presentation, initial evaluation, engaging the patient in therapeutic lifestyle change, navigating pharmacotherapy, getting ahead of diabetes, and treating across the spectrum of disease

Allows clinicians to access specific, relevant topics in a quick-reference, highly focused format

Provides high-yield information and guidance from an expert in this complex field

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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Clinical Presentation
Case 1. Type 2 Diabetes in Adults
Case 2. Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents
Case 3. Type 1 Diabetes in Children
Case 4. Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA)
Clinical Presentation
Case 5. Monogenic Diabetes
Case 6. Ketosis- Prone Type 2 Diabetes
Case 7. Pregestational Diabetes
Case 8. Gestational Diabetes
Case 9. Secondary Diabetes
Chapter 2 Initial Approach to the Patient 37
Case 1. Type 2 Adult
Case 2. Type 2 Adolescent
Case 3. Type 1 Child
Case 4. Type 1 Young Adulthood
Case 5. Developing an Engaged Family Approach
Chapter 3 Key Aspects of Treatment
Case 1. Type 2 Is Progressive
Case 2. Develop Your Diabetes Care Team
Case 3. Older Adults With Health Problems and Diabetes
Case 4. It Is About the Process Not Result
Case 5. Reengaging Your Patient
Case 6. Handling Serious Comorbid Illness
Chapter 4 Navigating Diabetes Treatments
Case 1. Therapeutic Lifestyle Change
Case 2. Best Practices With Metformin Therapy
Case 3. How to Select a Diabetes Medication
Case 4. Extraglycemic Effects of Medications
ContentsCase 5. Best Practices in Starting Insulin
Case 6. Effective Correction Insulin
Case 7. Intensive Insulin Therapy
Chapter 5 Hypoglycemia
Case 1. Reactive Hypoglycemia
Case 2. Defensive Eating
Case 3. Somogyi Effect
Case 4. Dawn Phenomenon
Case 5. Hypoglycemic Unawareness
Chapter 6 Anticipating and Responding to
Major Life Changes
Case 1. Prediabetes and Diabetes Prevention
Case 2. Increasing Responsibility in Self- Care
Case 3. Young Adult With Type 1 Diabetes
Case 4. Genetics of Diabetes Types
Case 5. Older Adult
Chapter 7 Technology in Diabetes
Case 1. How to Make Your Diabetes Office
Visits More Efficient
Case 2. Targeted Glucose Monitoring
Case 3. Introducing Glucose Sensors
Case 4. Benefits of Glucose Sensing
Case 5. Drawbacks of Glucose Sensing
Case 6. Introduction to Insulin Pumps
Chapter 8 Diabetes Potpourri
Case 1. Identifying Lipohypertrophy
Case 2. Glucose Testing and Diabetes Supply Snafus
Case 3. Make a Sick Day Plan
Case 4. Steroid- Associated Hyperglycemia
Case 5. Diabetes Complications Microvascular
Retinopathy, Nephropathy, Neuropathy
Case 6. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Index