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

What You Need to Know

Keith Souter (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
224 Seiten
Summersdale Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78372-580-9 (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: 1-78372-580-X / 178372580X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78372-580-9 / 9781783725809