Diabetes

Dr. Awanish KumarPresently Dr. Awanish Kumar is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India. He has more than 10 years of post Ph.D. research experience in the area of drug discovery and health care. He has obtained his Ph.D. degree from Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow & Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India in 2009. He has done post doctoral study from McGill University, Canada. Dr. Kumar has served various national and international organizations with different academic/research capacities. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed research paper in SCI journals. He is the author of several books and chapters. Currently, he is serving various national institutional committees, scientific society, advisory panel and giving his active contribution in academic and research. Awards and laurels won by Dr. Kumar run into volumes. He is the member of many international professional research societies and reviewer/editorial board member of reputed and refereed journals.Dr. Ashwini KumarDr. Ashwini Kumar did his M.Tech (Biotechnology) from Department of Biotechnology & Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela (Odisha), India. His master’s research was focused on obesity checking the effect of flavonoids on the lipid accumulation in adipocytes. He did his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Awanish Kumar from the Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology Raipur (Chhattisgarh), India. The broad area of his doctoral research was formulation of mucoadhesive drug delivery systems. His interest lies in biomaterials and metabolic diseases. He has 14 journal publications and 7 book chapters to his credit. Currently, he is working as a Research Associate in Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.

• Table of ContentsChapter 1 Diabetes Epidemiology-Year 1980 and afterChapter 2 Diabetes and InflammationChapter 3 Insulin Resistance and Glucose RegulationChapter 4 Diabetes: A leading contributor to other disease complicationsChapter 5 Biomarkers of DiabetesChapter 6 Anti-diabetic drugsChapter 7 Diagnosis and treatmentChapter 8 Dietary and lifestyle management of diabetesChapter 9 Future prospects and recommendations

"One of the main strengths of this book is its size. Including the index, the book runs to just 132 pages but I don’t see this as a weakness. In fact, it is a strength of this book at it means that it is quite feasible to read the book from cover to cover without too much difficulty. This is a huge bonus as despite its slim dimensions, it packs in a lot of data in an easy-to-read format.All in all, there is a lot of fascinating information here which gives a rounded and grounded tour of diabetes in a slim volume. Great credit to the authors who have produced this clever and informative book in a very readable format. Big is not necessarily beautiful and a busy clinician can easily read this whole book in a relatively short space of time and as a result be well acquainted with modern thinking in diabetes."--Dr Harry Brown, June 2021