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DVD

If You Have Diabetes [videorecording] : Comprehensive Guide to Life / directed and produced by Malcom Carter.

Carter, Malcom. (Added Author). Alpyn Health Education Inc. (Added Author).

Summary:

Presents information about diabetes, covering the types of diabetes, complications of the disease and how to avoid them, effective management of the condition, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, psychological aspects, self-monitoring blood sugar, and the future of diabetes.

Record details

Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: [Edmonton, Alta.] : Alpyn Health Education, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from DVD menu. "The most comprehensive and powerful educational DVD on diabetes ever made"--DVD label. Special features: Juvenile diabetes; Adolescents; Gestational diabetes; Body mass index; Waist circumference; Protecting your feet; Islet cell transplant; Contact information; Meditation; Meditation looping. Summary adapted from case insert.
Formatted Contents Note:	What is diabetes -- Take it seriously -- Risk factors -- Diagnosis symptoms -- Pre-diabetes -- Effective management of your diabetes -- How to monitor your blood glucose -- Diabetic ketoacidosis -- Hypoglycemia: how to recognize it -- Monitoring blood pressure -- Monitoring cholesterol -- How to make the most of your doctor's [sic] visits -- How do I control my diabetes? -- Nutrition therapy -- Exercise therapy, the management of obesity -- Smoking and diabetes -- Providing support for a loved one -- Dealing with your diagnosis -- Diabetic retinopathy -- Heart attack, peripheral vascular disease, stroke, atherosclerosis -- Kidney failure, diabetic nephropahy -- Nerve damage, diabetic neuropathy -- Erectile dysfunction -- The diabetic foot -- The future of diabetes.
System Details Note:	DVD.