Diabetes Mellitus

Features:

• Covers clinically important complications of diabetes that are less understood
• Presents up-to-date, thoroughly referenced information for both clinicians, researchers and other healthcare providers
• Highlights current research and treatment for skeletal deficits and complications due to diabetes types 1 and 2
• Serves as a one-stop resource for the bone, dental and muscular disorders associated with diabetes mellitus

Table Of Contents:

1. Diabetes mellitus and its many complications

Section I: Impact on bone health
2. Diabetes mellitus: How being too sweet leads to skeletal fragility
3. Mechanisms of skeletal fragility in diabetes mellitus
4. Impact of glucose-lowering medications on bone health in diabetes
5. The combined impact of diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease on mineral metabolism and bone fragility
6. Diabetes mellitus-Infections and fracture healing

Section II: Impact on dental health
7. Diabetes mellitus-Dental implants and periodontal disease
8. Diabetes mellitus and its association with infection and osteonecrosis of the jaw

Section III: Impact on musculoskeletal health
9. Diabetes mellitus and sarcopenia
10. Diabetes mellitus: Impact on common hand disorders
11. Musculoskeletal disorders associated with diabetes
12. Neuropathic arthropathy (Charcot joint)
13. Diabetes mellitus and muscle infarction
14. Diabetes mellitus and osteoarthritis
15. Diabetes mellitus and gout