Diabetes in Focus

Product Description This work offers useful information on dealing with diabetes patients for professional pharmacists. It reviews how the pharmacist, as a member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team, can become involved in counselling the diabetic patient on their illness, lifestyle and medicines. From the Back Cover Diabetes is a chronic disease affecting over one hundred and ten million people worldwide with this number expected to reach two hundred and twenty one million by the year 2010. Healthcare professionals are therefore increasingly encountering diabetic patients and the pharmacist is ideally placed to become actively involved in the management of the medicines used by such patients. Diabetes in Focus presents a clear, concise discussion of diabetes as a disease and reviews the role of the pharmacist in counselling the diabetic patient on their illness, lifestyle and medicines. Chapters include the diabetic syndrome, screening and prevention, pharmacotherapeutic interventions and lifestyle management. This book will be valuable to all pharmacists practising in a hospital or community environment and will be of interest to doctors and nurses specialising in diabetes. Anjana Patel is an independent pharmaceutical consultant.