Your Guide to Understanding and Dealing with Type 2 Diabetes (eBook)

What You Need to Know

Keith Souter (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2015
224 Seiten
Summersdale Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78372-578-6 (ISBN)

Infos

There are currently over 3.2 million people with diabetes in the UK, or 6 per cent of the adult population, and 85-90 per cent of these sufferers have type 2.Diabetes mellitus is a disorder where the body doesn't produce enough insulin, or doesn't react properly to the insulin it produces, causing a build-up of glucose in the blood. Type 2 diabetes often smoulders on for a long time before it is recognised and diagnosed - it is believed that there are hundreds of thousands of undiagnosed cases in the UK.This book gives the basic information needed to understand what type 2 diabetes is, how to recognise it, and, most essentially, how to manage it, including details on: The symptoms of type 2 diabetes Risk factors for type 2 diabetes and how to reduce those risks The various medicinal treatments and support available Changes to daily routines, diet, exercise and attitude that can improve life with type 2 diabetes.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.6.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Diabetologie
• ISBN-10: 1-78372-578-8 / 1783725788
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78372-578-6 / 9781783725786