The Diabetes Annual

Preface. List of contributors. 1. Recent advances in our understanding of sulphonylurea receptors and ATP-sensitive K-channels in pancreatic B-cells (F.M. Ashcroft). 2. Diabetes in Africa (F. Bonnici). 3. The role of growth factors in the renal complications of diabetes (A. Flyvbjerg et al.). 4. New developments in the search for nephropathy susceptibility genes in IDDM. (J.J. Rogus, A.S.Krolewski). 5. Genetics of obesity (A. H. Kissebah, G.E. Sonnenberg, G.R. Krakower). 6. The immunology of atherosclerosis (M.F. Lopes-Virella, G. Virella). 7. The effects of diabetes on cognitive function (I.J. Deary). 8. Metabolic control and microvascular complications in insulin-dependent (Type 1) diabetes: is there a threshold? (P. Reichard). 9. The importance of glycaemic control in the prevention of microvascular complications in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (B.R. Zimmerman). 10. Microalbuminuria in non-insulin-dependent diabetes: significance and management (G. Jerums, R.E. Gilbert) 11. Diabetic nephropathy and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (S.M. Marshall) 12. Sexual dysfunction in diabetes mellitus (A. Bhattacharyya, J. Beirne, P.G. Wiles). 13. Insulin therapy (P.D. Home, A.B.E. Ahmed). 14. The management of dyslipidaemia in diabetes (A. Gaw, J. Shepherd). 15. The economics of diabetes health care: a new challenge (J.E. Overland, D.K. Yue, J. R. Turtle). Subject Index.