**Meet the editor**

Dr. Chih-Pin Liu is a Professor, in Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases and Department of Immunology, at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope. He received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, and Ph.D. degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston

and at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver. He has had long-standing research interest in understanding the mechanisms that regulate immune tolerance induction during type 1 diabetes development. His recent work has focused on using genome-wide approaches to understand the molecular mechanisms responsible for modulating the function of regulatory T cells and identifying gene targets to improve regulatory T cell function for immunotherapy.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Complications 1** 

Vladimir Jakus, Jana Kostolanska, Dagmar Michalkova and Michal Sapak

Chapter 2 **Diet, Lifestyle and Chronic Complications in Type 1 Diabetic Patients 21** 

Chapter 3 **Lipid Disorders in Type 1 Diabetes 45** 

**Part 2 Psychological Aspects of Diabetes 83** 

Chapter 5 **Type I Diabetes in Children and Adolescents 85**  Laura Nabors, Phillip Neal Ritchey, Bevin Van Wassenhove and Jennifer Bartz

Bruno Vergès

Chapter 1 **The Study of Glycative and Oxidative Stress in Type 1** 

S.S. Soedamah-Muthu, S. Abbring and M. Toeller

Chapter 4 **Prevalence of Type 1 Diabetes Correlates with Daily Insulin** 

Chapter 6 **Inadequate Coping Attitudes, Disordered Eating Behaviours and Eating Disorders in Type 1 Diabetic Patients 95** 

Ricardo V. García-Mayor and Alejandra Larrañaga

Chapter 7 **Predictors of Adherence, Metabolic Control and Quality of Life in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes 119** 

> M. Graça Pereira, A. Cristina Almeida, Liliana Rocha and Engrácia Leandro

**Dose, Adverse Outcomes and with Autoimmune Process Against Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase in Adults 61**  Mykola Khalangot, Vitaliy Gurianov, Volodymir Kovtun, Nadia Okhrimenko, Viktor Kravchenko and Mykola Tronko

**Diabetes Patients in Relation to Circulating TGF-Beta1, VCAM-1 and Diabetic Vascular Complications 3** 
