Diabetes and cardiovascular disease

Author: Hu Dayi
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book is led by the renowned cardiovascular expert Professor Hu Dayi. Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are both highly prevalent conditions, and they mutually influence each other. Linking the two topics in a dedicated monograph will help in developing and guiding the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases among diabetic patients. The book integrates the latest international and domestic advancements, elucidating new perspectives such as diabetes being a vascular disease, an inflammatory disease, and a prothrombotic state. It also provides detailed discussions on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of various major complications of diabetes, such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, heart failure, diabetic cardiomyopathy, cardiac autonomic neuropathy, dyslipidemia, peripheral artery disease, diabetic nephropathy, renal artery stenosis, and stroke. The book is divided into 32 chapters, systematically covering the common pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of diabetes and various cardiovascular diseases. With its comprehensive and up-to-date content, the book contributes to standardizing the prevention and treatment of diabetic cardiovascular diseases in China and offers valuable guidance for diabetologists, cardiovascular and internal medicine physicians.