Your Guide to Understanding and Dealing with Type 2 Diabetes : What You Need to Know Paperback / softback
by Keith Souter
Part of the Personal Health Guides series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 diabetesRisk factors for type 2 diabetes and how to reduce those risksThe various medicinal treatments and support availableChanges to daily routines, diet, exercise and attitude that can improve life with type 2 diabetes.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Summersdale Publishers
- Publication Date:11/06/2015
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- ISBN:9781849535427
Information
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Summersdale Publishers
- Publication Date:11/06/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781849535427