Stop Wondering and Get the Answers You Need
With more than 115,000 copies sold, Diabetes: Questions You Have... Answers You Need is the complete consumer's guide to diabetes, answering all your questions about the disease and its associated disorders.
1. Learn how diabetes is diagnosed.
2. Understand the risks of related health problems-such as heart disease and kidney damage.
3. Find out about all the treatment and self-care options.
Diabetes is an illness that most people can handle quite readily themselves with just a little bit of training from competent medical practitioners. It is truly a condition where the consumer and physician form a partnership. But a partnership is useless if only one member of the team holds all the information.
In this newly revised edition of Diabetes: Questions You Have... Answers You Need you will learn: Who gets diabetes? How can the onset of diabetes be delayed or prevented? What is the advantage of the newest form of insulin? What is the latest research revealing? Those questions and hundreds more are answered in this easy-to-read, consumer-friendly guidebook.
But, wait! There's more. This edition also includes a comprehensive glossary and an extensive list of other sources and resources that can add to your knowledge and empowerment.
Sixteen million Americans have diabetes, and 8 million of them do not know they have it! A leading cause of death and disability, diabetes costs Americans nearly $92 billion each year. Questions You Have... Answers You Need may be your best weapon against this silent killer.