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(Contemporary Diabetes.) Edited by Pedro Cortes and Carl Erik Mogensen. 564 pp., illustrated. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2006. $175. ISBN 1-58829-624-5.

Pandemic diabetes mellitus, predominantly type 2 diabetes, gained front-page recognition in the New York Times and other major print media this year after the ominous prediction by Dr. Martin Silink, president-elect of the International Diabetes Federation, that diabetes, "one of the biggest health catastrophes the world has ever seen," is an epidemic that "will overwhelm health care resources everywhere if governments do not wake up and take action now." Industrialized nations in Europe, Asia, and South America report diabetes as the leading cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Of 92,469 patients who began treatment for ESRD in the United States . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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