Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease (Contemporary Cardiology)

This extensively updated and expanded second edition reflects new research, advances in clinical care, and the growing recognition that diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Written for the practicing clinician as a comprehensive review of diabetic vascular disease,the book both explains the basic pathophysiology of the disease and details the latest diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. The authors have added new chapters on percutaneous interventional therapy in
cardiac and peripheral vascular disease, cardiovascular surgery in diabetes, therapeutic interventions to improve endothelial function in diabetes, PARP activation and nitrosative stress in the development of the cardiovascular system, and PPARs and their emerging role in vascular biology, inflammation, and atherosclerosis.provides a great resource for readers needing to learn more about the relationship between these disease entities. The book is recommended forany series student of diabetes. In particular, cardiologists and cardiology fellows, as well as cardiovascular surgeons and fellows,
should be familiar with the material in it. It is also a valuable resource for those with more advanced knowledge of diabetes, such as endocrinologists and researchers active in the field of diabetes and
cardiovascular diseases."  -The New England Journal of Medicine"This second edition is a timely work by many eminent contributors.  It summarizes the vast knowledge about diabetes mellitus and
cardiovascular disease into one volume."  - Doody's Health Sciences Book
Review Journal
 From Reviews of the First Edition...
 "All practicing clinicians would find some value in this text, but
especially cardiologists and internal medicine practitioners as well as
vascular specialists.  Family medicine physicians and medical students
would find it a good reference. . .This is indeed a comprehensive review
of the vascular implications of diabetes.  It is an important book
because of the increasing prevalence of diabetes in our society. The
book provides a good starting point for researchers since one can be
struck after reading it that there are many opportunities for
investigation presented here.  It is a worthwhile addition to the
medical literature. "-Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal
 
 "...covers the range of problems, both clinical and biochemical, that
arise in the cardiovascular system of those with diabetes. I highly
recommend the book to interested medical students and residents and all
clinicians who work with patients with diabetes." - Canadian Family
Physician
 
 "...could serve as a clinical textbook as well as a
source and stimulus for further research in the field of diabetes
associated cardiovascular disease. It addresses the needs of general
physicians, specialists and medical students." -Diabetologia
"...particularly timely...fills a need in the scientific literature that
is only now beginning to be appreciated." -Preventive Cardiology
 
 "....highly recommended to clinicians as well as to researchers interested in diabetes." -Acta Cardiologica  
 "...a comprehensive review of the vascular implications of
diabetes...a worthwhile addition to the medical literature." -Doody's
Health Sciences Book Review Journal
 "...could serve as a
clinical textbook as well as a source and stimulus for further research
in the field of diabetes associated cardiovascular disease. It addresses
the needs of general physicians, specialists and medical students."
-Diabetologia

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