Drug Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes [Paperback]

This Adis Pocket Reference presents an up-to-date, succinct, and practical approach to drug therapy for type 2 diabetes.This Adis Pocket Reference offers an up-to-date, succinct, and practical approach to drug therapy for type 2 diabetes, presenting subsections for mode of action, pharmacokinetics, indications and contraindications, efficacy and adverse effects.Type 2 diabetes: rationale for pharmacological treatment.- Established classes of glucose-lowering drugs.- Recently introduced and emerging classes of glucose-lowering drugs.- The place of newer drugs in treatment algorithms.- Index.

Detailed coverage of established glucose-lowering drugs, and recently-introduced therapy options

Subsections for mode of action, pharmacokinetics, indications and contraindications, efficacy and adverse effects

Where to place newer drugs in the context of established drug therapy, guidelines and treatment algorithms