Full Description
This book will enlighten on some of the recent progress in diabetic care and therapy. Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because of the inability of cells to respond to the insulin that is produced. According to the recent report of World Health Organization, 346 million people worldwide are suffering from diabetes, and in 2004, approximately 3.4 million people died as a result of high blood sugar.
This book explores applying both classical and modern approaches to the management of diabetes by focusing on a holistic approach. Great attention has been focused on global trends in diabetes, epidemiology of diabetes, inhibitors in diabetes and diabetes therapy, vitamins and diabetes, and the role of dietary fats in diabetes in this book.
Topics include:
• diabetic foot ulcers and therapeutic footwear
• Withania coagulans. Dunal as an antidiabetic herb
• the pharmacological interventions for diabetic cardiomyopathy
• the use of saliva as a noninvasive tool to monitor glycemic control in diabetic patients
• a cutting-edge biomedical device for continuous in vivo glucose monitoring
• the temporal effect of repeated stress in the pathophysiology of T2DM
• nanosensor technology for glucose detection
The editors and authors emphasize a holistic approach toward the diagnosis, treatment, and management of diabetes by joining hands with experts from various disciplines
Medical students and doctors of modern medicine, Ayurveda, homeopathy, etc., medical reserachers, researchers in the area of diabetes, pharma professionals.
Contents
Diabetes and Healthcare: An Overview. Withania Coagulans Dunal: An Overview on Its Up to Date Antidiabetic Investigations. Evaluation of Total Phenolics and Free Radical Quenching Activity of Glycosmis Pentaphylla (Retz.). Antioxidant, Antidiabetic and Chemical Composition of Syzygium Aqueum Leaf Extracts. Review on Novel 2,4-Thiazolidinedione Derivatives as Potential Therapeutic Agents for Type Ii Diabetes. Molecular Mechanism of S-Oxidation of Anti-Diabetic Thiazolidinedione Class of Drugs: Computational Approaches to Drug Metabolism. Role of Wound Dressings in the Management of Chronic and Acute Diabetic Wounds. Recent Advances in Diabetic Foot Care: The Role of Footwear and Orthosis. Temporal Effect of Repeated Stress on Type-2 Experimental Diabetes. Sugar Rich Diet Induced Insulin Resistance and Alteration in Gut Microflora. Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in Patients Presenting With Acute Myocardial Infarction, Meeakshi Narkhede, Satyanarayan Durgam. Development of Therapeutic Strategy to Restore Coronary Microcirculation and Vegf Signaling Cascade in Diabetes: A Novel Approach to Prevent Cardiac Complication in Diabetes. Index.
