书目名称 | Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease | 编辑 | Michael T. Johnstone,Aristidis Veves | 视频video | | 概述 | Includes supplementary material: | 丛书名称 | Contemporary Cardiology | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The cause of diabetes mellitus is metabolic in origin. However, its major clinical manifestations, which result in most of the morbidity and mortality, are a result of its vascular pathology. In fact, the American Heart Association has recently stated that, “from the point of view of cardiovascular medicine, it may be appropriate to say, diabetes is a cardiovascular disease” (1). But diabetic vascular disease is not limited to just the macrovasculature. Diabetes mellitus also affects the microcirculation with devastating results, including nephropathy, neuropathy, and retinopathy. Diabetic nephropathy is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease in the United States, while diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of new-onset blindness in working-age Americans. The importance of this text on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease is evident by the magnitude of the population affected by diabetes mellitus. Over 10 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, while another 5 million remain undiagnosed. The impact from a public health perspective is huge and increasing. As the population of the United States grows older, more sedentary, and obese, the risk of develop | 出版日期 | Book 20052nd edition | 关键词 | Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Insulin; cardiovascular; hypertension | 版次 | 2 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1385/1592599087 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-59259-908-0Series ISSN 2196-8969 Series E-ISSN 2196-8977 | issn_series | 2196-8969 | copyright | Humana Press 2005 |
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