Leonid Poretsky – Principles of Diabetes Mellitus (Third edition, 2017)

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Welcome to the third edition of the Principles of Diabetes Mellitus! Fifteen
years elapsed since the first edition was published and 7 years since the second
edition appeared.
The epidemic of diabetes continues to march throughout the world, and the
cure continues to elude us. Some hopeful developments, however, should be
noted. Recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data indicate that
prevalence of obesity, a major driver of the epidemic of type 2 diabetes, is
leveling off, at least in the United States [1]. One hopes that this development,
if confirmed, will have a positive impact on the prevalence of diabetes in this
country. Many new therapeutic modalities have been introduced and the rates
of complications of diabetes, including cardiovascular events, have declined in
some instances by close to 70% [2]. It is my hope that this volume, by
summarizing and popularizing the knowledge of many outstanding experts,
will contribute to the future advances.
The third edition of Principles of Diabetes Mellitus, in addition to updating
all chapters from the second edition, contains four new chapters. These address
the potential role of vitamin D in the pathogenesis of diabetes; peculiarities of
diabetes in the elderly; oral manifestations of diabetes; and the current state of
bariatric surgery. (These chapters bring the total number of additional chapters
published since the first edition to ten.)
The third edition will be available in both an online format and as a printed
volume and will be “updatable” as new information develops. Online knowledge
is now, of course, the main source of information for everyone. There
were over 100,000 downloads of material from the second edition of Principles
of Diabetes Mellitus. We look forward to this number becoming even
higher as the third edition becomes fully electronic.
I thank all the 165 authors for their excellent contributions. I also thank Lina
Spiniello, Pamela Flores, and Marilyn Jefferson for their invaluable help in
keeping me in touch with both the authors and publishers. I thank Annalea
Manalili, Sonja Peterson, and Kristopher Spring of Springer Nature for their
patience and nurturing approach to the authors and the editor.
I hope that Principles of Diabetes Mellitus, Third Edition, will play its role
in helping us get to the final goal – the cure.