Full Description
The discipline of Endocrinology encompasses diabetes and obesity, two of the most common and pressing health care concerns today. The Oxford American Handbook of Endocrinology & Diabetes concisely reviews the entire discipline, providing a wealth of daily help for students and residents managing patients with diabetes and obesity as well as reproductive and neuroendocrine disorders, pediatric endocrinology, and problems of the thyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands. Key topics such as genetics, therapeutic agents, and results of major clinical trials are included, all in a compact and easily-navigable package.
Contents
1. Thyroid - Sol, Dina Green, Caroline Messer, Rachel Pessah ; 2. Pituitary - Boris, Janice Kerr ; 3. Adrenals - Boris ; 4. Reproductive endocrinology - Boris, Margaret ( Maggie) Wierman, MD ; 5. Endocrine disorders of pregnancy - Boris, Linda (Lynn) Barbour, MD ; 6. Calcium and bone - Sol ; 7. Pediatric endocrinology - Boris, Kristen Nadeau, MD ; 8. Neuroendocrine tumors of GI tract - Sol, Dina Green, Emily Gallagher ; 9. Inherited endocrine syndromes - Boris ; 10. Miscellaneous endocrinology - Boris, Marc Cornier, MD ; 11. Diabetes - Boris ; 12. Lipids - Sol, Dina Green, Barrie Weinstein ; 13. Laboratory Endocrinology - Boris, E. Chester (Chip) Ridgway, MD
