Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
With over ten million diagnosed patients and another five million undiagnosed, diabetes mellitus and its complications-cardiovascular disease, nephropathy, neuropathy, and retinopathy-is a major public health problem that will assume epidemic proportions
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CONTEMPORARY CARDIOLOGY CHRISTOPHER P. CANNON, MD SERIES EDITOR
Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias, edited by Leonard I. Ganz, MD, 2002 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, edited by Michael T. Johnstone, MD, CM, FRCP( C), and Aristidis Veves, MD, DSC, 2001 Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics, edited by William B. White, MD, 2001 Vascular Disease and Injury: Preclinical Research, edited by Daniel I. Simon, MD, and Campbell Rogers, MD, 2001 Preventive Cardiology: Strategies for the Prevention and Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease, edited by JoAnne Micale Foody, MD, 2001 Nitric Oxide and the Cardiovascular System, edited by Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD and Joseph A. Vita, MD, 2000 Annotated Atlas of Electrocardiography: A Guide to Confident Interpretation, by Thomas M. Blake, MD, 1999 Platelet Glycoprotein lIb/IlIa Inhibitors in Cardiovascular Disease, edited by A. Michael Lincoff, MD, and Eric J. Topol, MD, 1999 Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, edited by Mehmet C. Oz, MD and Daniel J. Goldstein, MD, 1999 Management ofAcute Coronary Syndromes, edited by Christopher P. Cannon, MD, 1999
DIABETES AND CARoIOVASCUIAR
DISEASE Edited by MICHAEL
T. JOHNSTONE, MD, CM, FRCP(C)
AND
AruSTIDIS VEVES, MD, DSC Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, A1A
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