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Type 2 diabetes is a complex metabolic disorder caused by several pathophysiologic mechanisms that affect about 10% percent of the global population. This book provides a comprehensive overview of this chronic clinical entity, focusing on early clinical signs and laboratory markers, risk of complications, and modalities for effective management. It includes fifteen chapters that address such topics as managing diabetes using lifestyle adaptation, physical exercise, metformin, incretin, or insulin preparations, gliflozins, complementary or alternative medication, or neurostimulation. Chapters also discuss gestational diabetes and diabetes in older age.

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