Being diagnosed with diabetes can be an overwhelming experience and unwelcome shock for many people. It is a lifestyle-changing disease that can have nasty long-term side effects. Diabetes in Adults shows that with proper management, patients may actually improve their lives in unexpected ways that will help delay or even prevent complications.
Readers will learn about: how to make lifestyle adjustments to cope with diabetes; insulin and other medications; possible complications and how to avoid them; issues related to pregnancy and contraception; how diabetes affects aging; and the latest developments and future options.
Complete with useful sidebars and case-studies, Diabetes in Adults provides easy-to-understand information to help people living with the disease learn what diabetes is and how to deal with it.

SARA J. MELTZER MD, FRCPC, FACP is an associate professor of medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at McGill University. She has practiced endocrinology for more than twenty-five years at the McGill University Health Centre-Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. She chaired the Clinical and Scientific Section of the Canadian Diabetes Association and the initial 1998 CDA Guidelines. She received the 1999 Frederick G. Banting Award and the 2001 Gerry Wong Award for helping people with diabetes.

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ANNE B. BELTON RN, BA, CDE is a consultant on health teaching, program development for health care professionals, and resource devlopment in the field of diabetes care and management at the international level. She chaired the Diabetes Educator Section of the Canadian Diabetes Association. She received the 1999 Charles H. Best Award from the Canadian Diabetes Association and in 2007 was given an Honourary Membership in CDA for her continued work in diabetes education.

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