Textbook of Diabetes and Pregnancy + Ebook

This book reviews the science, clinical management, and medical implications of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), a condition with serious consequences that is on the increase in all developed societies. Comprehensive, authoritative, and international, this book will be invaluable to maternal-fetal specialists, diabetologists, and the growing number of gynaecologists and general physicians concerned with the management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in pregnancy. New to this edition are chapters on non-communicable diseases, obesity, bariatric surgery, and epidemiology outside Western cultures.

Edited by

Moshe Hod, MD, professor (clinical) of obstetrics and gynecology, and director, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Helen Schneider Hospital for Women, Rabin Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Petah-Tiqva, Israel

Lois G. Jovanovic, MD, clinical professor of medicine, University of Southern CaliforniaKeck School of Medicine, and adjunct professor of biomolecular science and engineering, University of California-Santa Barbara, and CEO and chief scientific officer,Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, Santa Barbara, USA

Gian Carlo Di Renzo, MD, PhD, professor and chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and director, Centre of Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine, University Hospital, Perugia, Italy

Alberto de Leiva, MD, PhD, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes andNutrition, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau; EDUAB-HSP, CIBER-BBN, and Fundacion DIABEM, Barcelona, Spain.

Oded Langer, MD, PhD, Babcock professor and chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, University Hospital for Columbia University, New York, New York, USA