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This book focuses on clinical case series of diabetes. Diabetes is a serious condition that causes higher than normal blood sugar levels. Diabetes occurs when your body cannot make or effectively use its own insulin, a hormone made by special cells in the pancreas called islets. This book consists of 20 chapters, which include management of diabetes, judicious use of antidiabetic agents in an obese patient with type 2 diabetes, emerging role of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus, improvement in pancreatic β cell function after early and aggressive treatment with insulin at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, latent autoimmune diabetes in adults, stress-related diabetes mellitus, gestational diabetes mellitus, management of diabetic ketoacidosis in a patient on hemodialysis, diabetes with renal insufficiency, Charcot foot and ankle, management of a critically ill diabetic patient, reversal of hyperlipidemia after metabolic surgery, Cushing's syndrome and diabetes, diabetes with moderate nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy and mild diabetic macular edema, unilateral renal agenesis in type 2 diabetes mellitus, and Werner syndrome. The book covers a wide range of case studies in diabetology and each case includes the case history, investigations, differential diagnosis, and references. This book will serve as a useful guide for general physicians as well as postgraduate students and practicing diabetologists and endocrinologists.

In this issue of the “World Clinics of Diabetology”, some of the recent advances in the therapy of type 2 diabetes are presented by authors who are well known experts in the field. It have completed a range of topics ranging from dietary therapy of diabetes, physical activity, oral drugs and insulin in this issue with up-to-date reviews written by world class diabetologists. It would be a valuable addition to any library and would be useful to not only to practicing physicians and diabetologists but also to postgraduate students.