Type 1 Diabetes

David Levy is Consultant Physician at the Gillian Hanson Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Whipps Cross University Hospital, London, UK; and Hon Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He qualified from Cambridge and University College Hospital London, and has written several books on diabetes, both for professionals and patients.

An updated concise text providing students, residents and practitioners with the epidemiology, clinical aspects and therapy of Type 1 autoimmune diabetes.

• 1: History, epidemiology, and aetiology 2: Presentation and early clinical course 3: Diet and lifestyle 4: Insulin treatment and pancreas transplantation 5: Technology, current and future 6: Microvascular complications: DCCT/EDIC, Pittsburgh,and Finland 7: Management of microvascular and associated complications 8: Macrovascular complications, hypertension, and lipids 9: Adolescence and emerging adulthood 10: Pregnancy planning in Type 1 diabetes 11: Psychological problems 12: Some practical matters