Tailored to the needs of daily practice, this guide provides structured, clearly defined procedures for diagnostics, therapy concepts, and personalized therapy goals. It includes comprehensive information on prevention and early detection, as well as concomitant diseases such as lipid metabolism disorders and hypertension. Additionally, it addresses consequential diseases like vascular diseases, nephropathy, and neuropathies.

Patient education topics cover nutrition and lifestyle, with special features for children, adolescents, pregnant women, and elderly patients. It also includes information on perioperative care, enteral and parenteral nutrition, psychiatric diseases including dementia, and considerations for sports and travel.

Complex questions are met with competent answers, offering step-by-step therapy that is individually adapted to the patient's concomitant diseases, needs, and possibilities. Practical tips are provided for typical and atypical therapy problems, along with insights into new and future forms of therapy, including bariatric surgery.