Diabetes in America, 2nd Edition
Diabetes in America, 2nd Edition,
is a 733-page compilation and assessment of epidemiologic, public
health, and clinical data on diabetes and its complications in
the United States. It was published by the National Diabetes Data Group of the National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. The book contains 36
chapters organized in five areas:
- the descriptive epidemiology of diabetes in the United
States based on national surveys and community-based
studies, including prevalence, incidence,
sociodemographic and metabolic characteristics, risk
factors for developing diabetes, and mortality
- the myriad complications that affect patients with
diabetes
- characteristics of therapy and medical care for diabetes
- economic aspects, including health insurance and health
care costs
- diabetes in special populations, including African
Americans, Hispanics, Asian and Pacific Islanders, Native
Americans, and pregnant women.
Diabetes in America, 2nd Edition,
has been designed to serve as a reliable scientific resource
for assessing the scope and impact of diabetes and its
complications, determining health policy and priorities in
diabetes, and identifying areas of need in research. The intended
audience includes health policy makers at the local and Federal
levels who need a sound quantitative base of knowledge to use in
decision making; clinicians who need to know the probability that
their patients will develop diabetes and the prognosis of the
disease for complications and premature mortality; persons with
diabetes and their families who need sound information on which
to make decisions about their life with diabetes; and the
research community which needs to identify areas where important
scientific knowledge is lacking.
Each chapter of Diabetes in America,
2nd Edition, is a separate PDF (portable document format) file
and requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. The Reader can
be downloaded free of charge from Adobe Systems, Inc. at www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html.
Diabetes in America, 2nd
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