Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reappraising stereotypes of diabetes / Leonard C. Harrison ... [et al. ] -- How can we use genetic information in the clinic? / Michèle M. Sale and Stephen S. Rich -- Early detection and prediction of type 2 diabetes / Jonathan E. Shaw and Paul Z. Zimmet -- Role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance / Graeme I. Lancaster, Andrea Hevener, and Mark A. Febbraio -- How do we screen for and predict autoimmune diabetes? / Peter Achenbach, Ezio Bonifacio, and Polly J. Bingley -- What are the prospects for preventing autoimmune diabetes? / Carla J. Greenbaum and Leonard C. Harrison -- The incretin effect : regulation of insulin secretion and glucose tolerance by GI hormones / David A. D'Alessio, Benedikt A. Aulinger, and Marzieh Salehi -- Pharmacology of obesity / Parimal Misra and Ranjan Chakrabarti -- Reducing the burden of diabetic vascular complications / Mark E. Cooper and Michael Brownlee -- Diabetic retinopathy : translating discoveries to treatments / Thomas W. Gardner ... [et al.] -- Transplant-based treatments for the patient with long-standing type 1 diabetes / Mahfuzul Khan and David M. Harlan -- Creating an artificial pancreas : the marriage of insulin pumps and glucose sensors / Bruce Buckingham and Tandy Aye.