Diabetes: definition and pathophysiology -- Approach to diagnose and treatment of diabetes mellitus -- Monitoring diabetes -- Adipose tissue as an endocrine gland: a possible key in understanding the metabolic mysteries -- Medical nutrition therapy -- Physical activity for fitness -- Type 2 diabetes: multiple treatments for a multicomponent condition -- Pharmacotherapy of type 2 diabetes: medications to match the pathophysiology -- Using insulin to treat diabetes: general principles -- Designing a conventional insulin treatment program -- Physiologic insulin treatment programs -- Patient education -- Acute complications -- Microvascular complications -- Macrovascular complications -- Diabetic neuropathy -- Foot: clinical care and problem prevention -- Surgical management of the patient with diabetes -- Gender-specific issues -- Pregnancy and diabetes -- Treatment of children with diabetes -- Diabetes in the older adult -- Psychological issues in the treatment of diabetes -- Diabetes in culturally diverse populations: facing the challenge in clinical practice.