Table of Contents

Foreword.

Preface.

List of Contributors.

SECTION 1: THE DIABETES EPIDEMIC: DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM.

1. The Diabetes Epidemic; Genes and Environment Clashing (Paul Zimmet, Adrian Cameron and Jonathan Shaw).

2. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Primary and Secondary Prevention The Vision of the International Diabetes Federation (Pierre Lefèbvre).

3. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Children and Adolescents (Thomas Reinehr and Martin Wabitsch).

SECTION 2: SCREENING FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES.

4. Screening for Undiagnosed Diabetes: Whom, Where, When and How (Tim Kenealy, Bruce Arroll and Peter Müller).

5. Genetic Screening and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes (Paolo Pozzilli).

6. Screening Parameters and Techniques: Limitations and Opportunities (Knut Borch-Johnsen and Charlotte Glümer).

7. Screening for Diabetes Mellitus – the World Health Organization Perspective (Gojka Roglic, Rhys Williams and Stephen Colagiuri).

SECTION 3: PREVENTION OF TYPE 2 DIABETES.

8. Findings from Preventive Type 2 Diabetes Trials (Markolf Hanefeld).

9. A Paradigm Shift is Needed in the Primary Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes (Jaakko Tuomilehto).

10. The Behaviour Change Process (Frank J. Snoek and Richard R. Rubin).

SECTION 4: PREVENTION OF COMPLICATIONS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES.

11. Preventive Disease Management – Risk Stratification as a New Tool in the Hands of General Practitioners (Thomas Konrad).

12. Prevention of Obesity and Lipid Disorders (Hermann Liebermeister).

13. Renal Dysfunction and Hypertension, Focus on Type 2 Diabetes (Carl Erik Mogensen).

14. Diabetic Retinopathy in the 21st Century: Screening and Visual Outcomes (Ayad Al-Bermani and Roy Taylor).

15. Prevention and Treatment of Diabetic Neuropathy (Anders A. F. Sima).

16. The Cardiologist’s View: Prevention of Macrovascular Complications (Michael Faust, Sabine Wiedenmann and Reinhard Griebenow).

17. Milestones and New Perspectives in Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes and its Complications (Carl Erik Mogensen).

Index.

About the Author

Manfred Ganz, M.D.Specialist Internal Medicine, Diabetologist DDG, Medical Director Roche Diagnostics Global Diabetes Care, Mannheim/Germany.

Reviews

"…enjoyable and easy to read…a worthy library addition…" (The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, September 2005) "…presents the latest global perspective on the affliction." (Electric Review, April/May 2005) "This is a timely and helpful treatment of an important public health topic. I am unaware of any other contemporary books which address exactly this issue." (Doody's Health Services) "An ambitious title, written by some of the world’s leading diabetologists, it takes a very careful approach …" (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), Vol. 3: September 2005) " … an excellent resource for professionals … a one-stop source for understanding the state of current prevention knowledge about type 2 diabetes." (Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, August 2006)