Introduction 245 The evolving nature of diabetes education 246 Why educate people with diabetes?246 Diabetes self-management 248 Structured diabetes education 248 Planning education 252 Developing educational programmes 254 Topics that…
Introduction 173 Glycaemic control 174 Dyslipidaemia 177 Hypertension 183 Non-pharmacological means of reducing blood pressure 186 Pharmacological treatment of cardiovascular disease 187 Obesity 188 Conclusion 189 References 189 INTRODUCTION Diabetes…
Introduction 151 History of blood glucose monitoring 152 Monitoring in type 2 diabetes 153 Monitoring options 160 Testing for ketones 167 Other factors that can influence monitoring of diabetes 168…
Introduction 21 Why identify people with type 2 diabetes?22 The oral glucose tolerance test 25 Impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose 27 Psychological aspects of diagnosis of type 2…
Introduction 39 The personal meaning of having diabetes 40 SECTION ONE: EMOTION, MOOD AND HOW PEOPLE FEEL Self-efficacy 41 Locus of control 42 Health beliefs 42 Stress and diabetes 44…
The first person to transfuse a human being was Professor J Denis who, with the help of a surgeon Mr C Emmerez, gave transfusions of lamb’s blood or calf’s blood…
According to RE Rosenfield (1977, supplemented by personal communication), L Buchbinder, a PhD student of Karl Landsteiner, had discovered Rh polymorphism at some time in the 1930s, but Landsteiner had…
The Effect of Splenectomy Following splenectomy, red cell survival has been found to be normal in humans and rabbits (Miescher 1956a; McFadzean et al. 1958), although slightly prolonged in rats…
), Woodrow and Donohoe (1968); 2 (), E Borst-Eilers (personal communication); 3 (•), Poulain and Huchet (1971). In Figure 12.1, the magnitude of TPH on a logarithmic scale is plotted…
Although numbers up to 56 are included in Table 5.1, some are omitted: 13–16, because they were given to RhA, etc., no longer regarded as distinct antigens; and 25, because…
