Endocrinology category: 1008 books
Glucose Intake and Utilization in Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes
Implications for Cardiovascular Disease
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
This important reference, edited by Ronald Ross Watson and Betsy Dokken, collects the research needed to make the distinct connection between pre-diabetes, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Glucose Intake and Utilization in Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease explains...
Exercise and Chronic Disease
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
It is now widely accepted that there are important links between inactivity and lifestyle-related chronic diseases, and that exercise can bring tangible therapeutic benefits to people with long-term chronic conditions. Exercise and Chronic Disease: An Evidence-Based Approach offers the most up-to-date...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1999
Women and Health is a comprehensive reference which addresses health issues affecting women of all ages--adolescence through maturity. It goes far beyond other books on this topic which concentrate only on reproductive health, and has a truly international perspective. It covers key issues ranging...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The versatility of oocyte and embryo donation has proven to be extremely valuable to both patients and doctors engaged in reproductive medicine. Originally thought to be applicable only to a rather small subset of infertile women, today busy practices commonly recommend the procedure and it is estimated...
Estrogen Matters
Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A compelling defense of hormone replacement therapy, exposing the faulty science behind its fall from prominence and empowering women to make informed decisions about their health.
For years, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was hailed as a miracle. Study after study showed that HRT, if initiated...
Screening for Depression and Other Psychological Problems in Diabetes
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
This book is divided into two main sections, and covers a broad range of issues important for health practitioners to be aware of when caring for people with co-morbid diabetes and depression. Section One of the book contains the overall ideas and the more recent developments in measuring psychological...
by Charlene Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This book will be helpful for any health care professional assisting the patient with diabetes to reach their target goals. The various oral medications and their mechanisms, as well as the types and regimens of the various insulins are discussed. Reaching target goals has been shown to prevent the acute...
Kidney and Body Fluids
Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Budapest, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Advances in Physiological Sciences, Volume 11: Kidney and Body Fluids offers a thorough discussion of the experiments, research, and investigations done on the function, composition, and chemical reactions the kidney and body fluids undergo.
Divided into 10 parts and having 88 chapters, the...
Obesity and Overeating
Research Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
With the increasing worldwide incidence of obesity and the resulting increase in metabolic disorders such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and some cancers, an understanding of the multitude of factors that contribute to obesity is crucial for researchers to develop more effective treatments....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2009
Since its ?rst description in 1942 in both serum and cerebrospinal ?uid, transthyretin (TTR) has had an eventful history, including changes in name from “prealbumin” to “thyroxine-binding prealbumin” to “transthyretin” as knowledge increased about its functions. TTR is synthesised in a...
Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome
Comprehensive Clinical Review and Related Health Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
In just under three decades, the world has witnessed an enormous rise in obesity with a parallel growth in cardiometabolic disease risk factors characterized by insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, together known as the metabolic syndrome - conditions previously unheard of in children...
Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes
A Darwinian Interpretation of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Darwinian medicine looks at the ecological and evolutionary roots of disease. A disease is an interaction between a genome and its biotic or abiotic environment and therefore a disease is essentially an ecological process. Good understanding of ecology and a Darwinian way of thinking can give us novel...
Minimally Invasive Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Principles and Technical Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
This book explains the concept of metabolic surgery and provides step-by-step descriptions of all the principal minimally invasive surgical techniques employed to treat morbid obesity. The approach adopted is very practical. For each procedure, indications, technical aspects, clinical management and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
For practitioners at all stages of experience, diseases of the parathyroid glands are not easily deciphered. There are many subtleties to its pathology and diagnosis. Today, the wealth of new information from molecular medicine makes it very challenging for the individual practitioner to have a...