Epidemiology of pediatric and adolescent diabetes

The epidemiology of diabetes in children and adolescents is changing, which carries profound implications for how clinicians screen, assess, and manage theworld-wide epidemic of this chronic disease. Over the past few years, as the incidence of childhood obesity has dramatically increased, so has the emergence of Type 2 diabetes in young people, as well as the incidence of diabetic diagnoses anomalies that do not conform to the standard type1 or type 2 classification models. This will be the first book of its kind to address this criticalparadigm shift, and offer insights and recommendations as to how clinicians can better care for this growing patient population. INDICE: Introduction. Definition, Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetesin Youth. Descriptive Epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes in Youth: Incidence, Incidence and Secular Trends. Genetic Epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes. Early Life Diet and Risk of Type 1 Diabetes. Environmental Determinants: The Role of Viruses. Can we Slow the Increasing Incidence of Autoimmune Diabetes? The Accelerator and the Overload Hypotheses. Descriptive Epidemiology of Type 2 Diabetesin Youth: Prevalence, Incidence and Secular Trends: Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Youth. Insulin Resistance vs. Decreased Insulin Secretion as Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes: High and Low Birth Weights as Risk Factors. Monogenic Forms of Diabetes in the Young. Natural Evolution, Prediction and Prevention ofType 1 Diabetes in Youth. Screening and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in Youth. Chronic Complications of Childhood Diabetes. Cardiovascular. The Epidemiology of Acute Complications:Disease Risk Factors. Dietary Factors in Youth with Diabetes; Childhood Diabetes: Health Care Quality, Utilization and Cost. Treatment Patterns in Youth with Diabetes. Psychosocial Issues in Childhood Diabetes. Quality of Care and Quality of Life for Youth with Diabetes.

• ISBN: 978-1-4200-4797-4
• Editorial: Informa Healthcare
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 356
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés