Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Prediabetes and the Diagnosis of Diabetes -- 1 Is prediabetes a risk factor or is it a disease? / Jacob Kohlenberg and Adrian Vella -- 2 Prediction, early diagnosis and appropriate management of early type 1 diabetes including disease-modifying therapy -- 3 Reclassifying or Declassifying Diabetes? Can Clinical Characteristics Guide Classification & Treatment? / Adrian Vella -- 4 How should secondary causes of diabetes be excluded? / Tomás P. Griffin, Aonghus O'Loughlin and Sean F. Dinneen -- 5 How to screen appropriately for Monogenic Diabetes / Adrian Vella -- PART II Initial Evaluation and Management of Diabetes -- 6 Managing Gestational Diabetes During and After Pregnancy / Aoife M Egan, Fidelma P Dunne -- 7 What is the role of self-monitoring in diabetes? Is there a role for postprandial glucose monitoring? How does continuous glucose monitoring integrate into clinical practice? / Rami Almokayyad and Robert Cuddihy -- 8 Is HbA1c the most important therapeutic target in the outpatient management of diabetes? / Kristin Gonzales and Steven A. Smith -- 9 Closed loop systems in type 1 diabetes -- 10 Optimizing diet in patients with diabetes / Meera Shah -- 11 Insulin sensitizers versus secretagogues as first-line therapy for diabetes: Rationale for clinical choice / Robert J. Richards, L. Yvonne Melendez-Ramirez, and William T. Cefalu -- 12 Are insulin sensitizers useful additions to insulin therapy? / John W. Richard III and Philip Raskin -- 13 Incretin-Based Therapy for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes / Kristin Gonzales & Adrian Vella -- Part III Diagnosis and Management of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Disease -- 14 Screening asymptomatic patients with prediabetes and diabetes for cardiovascular disease -- 15 Choosing medications for type 2 diabetes -- what weighting should be given to cardiovascular risk reduction? / Adrian Vella -- 16 Choosing Medications for Weight Loss in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus / Shubhada Jagasia, Alexander J. Williams, Chase D. Hendrickson -- 17 Are statins the optimal therapy for cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes? What newer agents are there for the treatment for dyslipidemia in diabetes? Are triglycerides an important risk factor for diabetes? / Recie Davern, Timothy O'Brien -- 18 New Agents for Treatment of Dyslipidemia / Vinaya Simha -- 19 Surgery for weight management / Silvana Obici and Judith Korner -- 20 Revascularization Strategies in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus and Ischemic Heart Disease / Madeline K. Mahowald, Chiam Leker Locker, Mandeep Singh, Robert L. Frye -- Part IV Management of Disease Complications -- 21 Management of hyperglycemia in critical illness -- 22 Diagnosis and management of ophthalmic complications of diabetes -- 23 Upper Gastrointestinal Manifestations of Diabetes / Michael Camilleri -- Index