Diabetes Mellitus: A Medical History Journey (Public Health: Practices, Methods and Policies)

The United States CDC (Center for Disese Control and Prevention) estimated that 86 million adult Americans have prediabetes and therefore risk of developing T2DM, and 1 in 10 are unaware of their condition. About 29 million people have actual diabetes with most T2DM. With about 9% of the population having diabetes, we are talking about a public health issue of proportion.

Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1 Trends in child and youth diabetes

Section One: Diabetes mellitus history
Chapter 2 A historical journey of diabetes mellitus

Section Two: Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 About the authors
Chapter 4 About the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine (WMED), Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Chapter 5 About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel
Chapter 6 About the book series "Public health: Practices, methods and policies"

Section Three: Index