Medicine & Health Sciences

Diabetes Mellitus and Human Health Care
A Holistic Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment

Editors: Anne George, MD
Robin Augustine
Mathew Sebastian, MD

Diabetes Mellitus and Human Health Care

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: January 2014
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781926895765
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77463-303-8
E-Book ISBN: 9781482224511
Pages: 520pp
Binding Type: hardbound / ebook / paperback

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This book will enlighten on some of the recent progress in diabetic care and therapy. Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because of the inability of cells to respond to the insulin that is produced. According to the recent report of World Health Organization, 346 million people worldwide are suffering from diabetes, and in 2004, approximately 3.4 million people died as a result of high blood sugar.

This book explores applying both classical and modern approaches to the management of diabetes by focusing on a holistic approach. Great attention has been given on global trends in diabetes, epidemiology of diabetes, inhibitors in diabetes and diabetes therapy, vitamins and diabetes, and the role of dietary fats in diabetes in this book.
Topics include:
  • Antidiabetic potential of medicinal plants like Withania coagulans, Glycosmis pentaphylla, and Syzygium aqueum
  • The pharmacological interventions for diabetic cardiomyopathy
  • Exploitation of noninvasive tools like saliva for glucose monitoring
  • Biosensors for continuous in vivo glucose monitoring
  • The temporal effect of repeated stress in the pathophysiology of diabetes
  • Nanosensor technology for glucose detection
  • more
The editors and authors emphasize a holistic approach toward the diagnosis, treatment, and management of diabetes by joining hands with experts from various disciplines: medical students and doctors of modern medicine, Ayurveda, homeopathy, etc., medical reserachers, researchers in the area of diabetes, pharma professionals.

CONTENTS:
Preface
Chapter 1: Diabetes and Healthcare: An Overview
M. Abhilash and Robin Augustine

Chapter 2: Withania Coagulans Dunal: An Overview on Its Up to Date Antidiabetic Investigations

S. Hemalatha, Satyendra K. Prasad, Manish Kumar, and S. D. Dubey

Chapter 3: Evaluation of Total Phenolics and Free Radical Quenching Activity of Glycosmis Pentaphylla

(Retz.) A. Dc. Rahul Chandran and Thangaraj Parimelazhagan

Chapter 4: Antioxidant, Antidiabetic and Chemical Composition of Syzygium Aqueum Leaf Extracts

Uma D. Palanisamy and Thamilvaani Manaharan

Chapter 5: Review on Novel 2,4-Thiazolidinedione Derivatives as Potential Therapeutic Agents for Type Ii Diabetes

Gangadhara Angajala and Radhakrishnan Subashini

Chapter 6: Molecular Mechanism of S-Oxidation of Anti-Diabetic Thiazolidinedione Class of Drugs: Computational Approaches to Drug Metabolism

Nikhil Taxak and P. V. Bharatam

Chapter 7: Role of Wound Dressings in the Management of Chronic and Acute Diabetic Wounds

Robin Augustine, Nandakumar Kalarikkal, and Sabu Thomas

Chapter 8: Recent Advances in Diabetic Foot Care: The Role of Footwear and Orthosis

Saraswathy G, Gautham Gopalakrishna, Das B. N, and Vijay Viswanathan

Chapter 9: Temporal Effect of Repeated Stress on Type-2 Experimental Diabetes

Debapriya Garabadu and Sairam Krishnamurthy

Chapter 10: Sugar Rich Diet Induced Insulin Resistance and Alteration in Gut Microflora

Prasant Kumar Jena, Shilpa Singh, and Sriram Seshadri

Chapter 11: Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in Patients Presenting Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Meeakshi Narkhede, Satyanarayan Durgam, Harshal Bhitkar, Swapnil Yadav, and Dilip Mhaisekar

Chapter 12: Development of Therapeutic Strategy to Restore Coronary Microcirculation and Cops Signaling Cascade in Diabetes: A Novel Approach to Prevent Cardiac Complication in Diabetes

Subrina Jesmin, Arifur Rahman, Abdullah Al Mamun, Farzana Sohael, Shamima Akter, Yoshio Iwashima, Nobutake Shimojo, Naoto Yamaguchi, Michiaki Hiroe, Taro Mizutani, and Masao Moroi

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Anne George, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, Government Medical College, Kottayam, India

Anne George, MD, is Associate Professor at Government Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala, India. She did her MBBS Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) at Trivandrum Medical College, University of Kerala, India. She acquired a DGO (Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology) from the University of Vienna, Austria; Diploma Acupuncture from the University of Vienna; and an MD from Kottayam Medical College, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. She has organized several international conferences, is a fellow of the American Medical Society, and is a member of many international organizations. She has five publications to her name and has presented 25 papers.

Robin Augustine
Research Scholar, International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India

MMr. Robin Augustine is a research fellow working at the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He received a bachelor’s degree in botany from the University of Calicut, Kerala, India and a master’s degree in bioengineering from Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamilnadu, India. He is experienced in developing smart biomaterials such as wound dressings, tissue engineering scaffolds, and suture materials. Presently he is engaged in the design and development of nanotechnology-based smart wound dressing materials for chronic diabetic wounds at the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He has publications in international journals and conference proceedings in his credit.

Mathew Sebastian, MD
Senior Consultant Surgeon, Elisabethinin Hospital, Klagenfurt, Austria; Austrian Association for Ayurveda

Mathew Sebastian, MD, has a degree in surgery (1976) with specialization in Ayurveda. He holds several diplomas in acupuncture, neural therapy (pain therapy), manual therapy and vascular diseases. He was a missionary doctor in Mugana Hospital, Bukoba in Tansania, Africa (1976- 1978) and underwent surgical training in different hospitals in Austria, Germany, and India for more than 10 years. Since 2000 he is the doctor in charge of the Ayurveda and Vein Clinic in Klagenfurt, Austria. At present he is a Consultant Surgeon at Privatclinic Maria Hilf, Klagenfurt. He is a member of the scientific advisory committee of the European Academy for Ayurveda, Birstein, Germany, and TAM advisory committee (Traditional Asian Medicine, Sector Ayurveda) of the Austrian Ministry for Health, Vienna. He conducted an International Ayurveda Congress in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 2010. He has several publications to his name.




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