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Type 1 Diabetes: A Healthier Life for Adults With Diabetes. San Bruno, CA: The StayWell Company. 2003. 16 p.

This booklet offers a friendly, graphics-intensive approach to learning about type 1 diabetes and its care. The booklet is designed to educate young adults who have just been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Topics include the causes of diabetes, the impact of diabetes on one's daily activities, emotions that can be expected with the diagnosis, the members of the patient care team, how insulin works in the body, how to monitor one's blood glucose (SMBG, self-monitoring of blood glucose), the equipment and supplies used (blood glucose meters, needles, insulin pen, insulin pump), hypoglycemia (low blood glucose) and its symptoms, hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) and its complications, the role of healthy eating, the importance of exercise, getting good medical care, handling sick days, and how to learn more about diabetes. The booklet offers the contact information for four resource organizations through which readers can get more information. The booklet is illustrated with cartoon figures, full-color photographs, and brightly colored graphics.

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Type 2 Diabetes. Yardley, PA: The StayWell Company: KRAMES Health and Safety Education. 2003. 13 p.

This booklet helps readers recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes understand and manage the disease. Type 2 diabetes is a chronic and progressive condition that makes it hard for the body to break food down into energy. The booklet first describes the professionals who may be a part of the patient care team, including an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian, a diabetes educator, and a psychologist or social worker. The booklet then discusses the pathology of type 2 diabetes, the importance of managing the disease, how to check one's blood glucose (sugar), healthy eating, the role of physical activity and exercise, medications and drug therapy, treating high blood glucose (hyperglycemia) and low blood glucose (hypoglycemia) levels, the need for regular doctor's visits, self care, preventive strategies (i.e., preventing hypoglycemia while driving, preparing for emergencies), preparing for special situations (sick days, travel), and where to find emotional support. The brochure is illustrated with full-color drawings of patients and health care providers. The brochure concludes with the contact information for four resource organizations that can provide assistance. The brochure is also available in Spanish. 39 figures.

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Type I Diabetes: Etiology and Treatment. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. 2003. 608 p.

The increasing incidence of diabetes worldwide has prompted a rapid growth in the pace of scientific discovery and clinical understanding of this disease. In this book, well-recognized physicians and researchers review the latest thinking about the causes of type 1 diabetes and the best approaches to treating both its acute and chronic complications. The book includes 32 chapters in four sections: etiology (cause), treatment, special management issues, and long-term complications. Specific topics include epidemiology, genetics, prediction and prevention of type 1 diabetes, beta-cell destruction by autoimmune processes, the metabolic basis of insulin secretion, prevention and correction of hypoglycemia, nonautoimmune forms of diabetes, diabetic ketoacidosis, insulin regimens, relationship between metabolic control and complications, insulin delivery systems and glucose sensors, patient and family education, nutritional management, management of diabetes in very young children, children, adolescents, hypoglycemia, pregnancy, surgery for the patient with type 1 diabetes, diabetic retinopathy (eye disease), diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease), diabetic peripheral and autonomic neuropathy (nerve disease), the diabetic foot, atherosclerosis in type 1 diabetes, cutaneous (skin) complications, infection and diabetes, pancreas transplantation, islet transplantation, beta cell replacement therapy, and islet growth factors. Each chapter concludes with a list of references and a subject index concludes the textbook.

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Williams Textbook of Endocrinology. 10th ed. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier, Health Sciences Division. 2003. (CD-ROM)

This textbook of endocrinology serves as a bridge between basic science and clinical endocrinology. Forty-one chapters are provided in ten sections: hormones and hormone action, hypothalamus and pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, reproduction, endocrinology and the life span, mineral metabolism, disorders of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, polyendocrine disorders, and paraendocrine and neoplastic syndromes. Specific topics include: principles of endocrinology; the endocrine patient; genetic control of peptide hormone formation; mechanism of action of hormones that act as nuclear hormone receptors; mechanism of action of hormones that act at the cell surface; laboratory techniques for recognition of endocrine disorders; neuroendocrinology; the anterior pituitary; the posterior pituitary; thyroid physiology and diagnostic evaluation of patients with thyroid disorders; thyrotoxicosis; hypothyroidism and thyroiditis; nontoxic goiter and thyroid neoplasia; the adrenal cortex; endocrine hypertension; the physiology and pathology of the female reproductive axis; fertility control: current approaches and global aspects; disorders of the testes and the male reproductive tract; sexual dysfunction in men and women; endocrine changes of pregnancy; endocrinology of fetal development; disorders of sex differentiation; normal and aberrant growth; puberty: ontogeny, neuroendocrinology, physiology, and disorders; endocrinology and aging; hormones and disorders of mineral metabolism; metabolic bone disease; kidney stones; type 2 diabetes mellitus; type 1 diabetes mellitus; complications of diabetes mellitus; glucose homeostasis and hypoglycemia; obesity; disorders of lipid metabolism; pathogenesis of endocrine tumors; multiple endocrine neoplasias; the immunoendocrinopathy syndromes; gastrointestinal hormones and gut endocrine tumors; endocrine-responsive cancer; humoral manifestations of malignancy; carcinoid tumors, carcinoid syndrome, and related disorders. Each chapter is written by experts in the field and concludes with extensive references; a subject index concludes the textbook. The CD-ROM format enables powerful search capabilities, as well as links to MEDLINE abstracts for many of the references.

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