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Title: 40 mg of lisinopril daily is ideal for diabetic nephropathy.(Metabolic Disorders)
Author: Miriam E. Tucker
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This digital document is an article from Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1748 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The third edition of this authoritative, comprehensive, in-depth medical guide features information on medical topics in language accessible to adult laypersons. Disease/disorder articles typically cover definition; description; causes and symptoms; diagnosis; treatments; prevention; and more. Test/treatment articles typically cover definition; purposes; precautions; preparation; risks; normal and abnormal results; and much more. ... Read more

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Title: Thiazolidinediones appear safe for diabetic eyes.(METABOLIC DISORDERS)(Clinical report)
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Volume: 40Issue: 8Page: 18(1)

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Title: Therapeutic efficacy of Stephania Tetrandra S. Moore for treatment of neovascularization of retinal capillary (retinopathy) in diabetes--in vitro study.
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Title: Diabetic eye disease in the U.S. projected to triple by 2050.(Endocrinology)
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Title: Is your staff prepared to handle a diabetic crisis?(LIABILITY landscape)
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The term “Alternative Medicine” encompasses many forms, and elicits at least as many opinions. This authoritative, objective set is in tune with the subjects that matter to students and researchers, presenting four volumes of current, unbiased information on alternative and complementary medical practices. Covering all aspects of the subject—Therapies, Conditions/Diseases, Herbs/Plants and People—the “Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine” identifies 150 types of alternative medicine being practiced today, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture, chelation therapy, kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy, detoxification, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda and osteopathy. For the practitioner or interested patient, there are current training requirements, listings of organizations, as well as descriptions of treatments.

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Title: Retinopathy found prior to diabetes development.(Metabolic Disorders)
Author: Miriam E. Tucker
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Date: September 1, 2005
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Volume: 35Issue: 17Page: 18(1)

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(Martin Dunitz) Oogcentrum Houten, The Netherlands. With over 160 color and halftone photographs, this book explains how conceptual and scientific perception of diabetic retinopathy originates from general medical and basic science. Color and halftone photographs throughout. For opthalmologists. ... Read more

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A book to be read by anyone interested in Diabetic Retinopathy
The most valuable feature of this book is the extensive and well presented coverage of the basic mechanisms, histopathology, and pathophysiology of diabetic retinopathy in chapters 12 to 16. ... Read more

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Not a good book for blind OR sighted people...
All content within this book is copied directly off Wikipedia. This IS mentioned within the book itself, but is not mentioned here on its Amazon page. (sneaky!) Not only is this book entirely copypasta, it is not edited at all or even proofread. There are arrows by certain words (which had been links on the Wikipedia website) as well as missing characters (from foreign languages) and all articles are slapped together in a hodgepodge manner, with no real organization, and is not a good book on blindness and eyes.

From the Alphascript website itself... "Career - We are an established business that is constantly growing. Thus, we are regularly recruiting qualified staff with the most diverse areas of expertise."

Wait a minute? Qualified staff? Diverse expertise? The people listed as editors on this book (and all the others by Alpha) are editors in name only - they don't even bother cleaning up the Wikipedia articles that they copypasta. It takes minimal effort to highlight a text and right-click Copy and right-click again to Paste. It takes no expertise in any subject to copypaste, and many of their books have a hodgepodge of poorly organized articles - someone with actual expertise would have been able to organize material in a coherent and clean manner, at least.

Any optometrist or anyone else that works with eyes and vision in general can tell you that this is a bad and poorly organized book. There are so many wonderful free resources out there - Wikipedia, blindness sites, eyecare sites, etc, and plenty of good books on eyes and all eye-related material right here on Amazon. ... Read more