Essential Pharmacotherapy For Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension And Dyslipidemia

There are still dramatic public health challenges around the world with chronic non-communicable diseases, including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. Apart from impacting millions of people, these are also a major contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The management of these diseases continues to become more important as the burden of these disorders increases and thus the role of pharmacotherapy becomes more crucial.

Convenient and comprehensive, Essential Pharmacotherapy for Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, and Hypertension has been designed to serve as a single-click, evidence-based resource for the practitioners, students, and clinicians who care for patients with these debilitating chronic diseases. This book serves as a bridge between understanding pathophysiology and pharmacologic intervention, with the goal of ensuring that therapeutic decisions are productive, effective and consistent with the clinical guidelines of the day.

It is organized to facilitate understanding and usability, providing in-depth information on the mechanisms of action, clinical roles, adverse events and monitoring parameters of selected pharmacologic agents. This integrative message is extrapolated in each section, addressing individualization of care, the importance of lifestyle modification and the prevention of complications. Therapeutics is constantly evolving, so we have additionally included current clinical trials, treatment algorithms, and practice recommendations. It’s real-world clinical scenarios, with cases involving patients converted into virtual cases.

We hope this book will be not only a source book, but also one that you will use practically in the care of patients with these chronic conditions. Pharmacy and medical students, nurse practitioners, and even seasoned clinicians will find this resource to be a valuable aid for safe, effective, compassionate, and informed pharmacologic management.

We would like to express our gratitude to the many contributors, reviewers, and practitioners involved in this work, and we invite feedback in our efforts to make future editions better and better.