Frontmatter -- Editors -- List of first-mentioned contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- Discovery of photocoagulation treatment in diabetic eye disease -- Research methodologies in measuring blood glucose and in defining diabetes -- Immunohistochemical methods in the study of islet amyloid polypeptide -- Determination of insulin sensitivity by glucose clamp technique -- Insulin sensitivity from the minimal model -- Methodological issues in dietary studies of diabetes -- Assessment of body composition -- Calorimetry -- Research methodologies for recording blood pressure in diabetic patients -- Research methodologies in measurement of platelet function, endothelial proteins, coagulation factors and fibrinolysis -- Clinical research methodologies in diabetic pregnancy -- Research methodologies in evaluation of fetal dysfunction -- Exercise protocols in diabetes -- Assessment of stress hormone responses in diabetes: secretion, circulating levels and action in vivo -- Exploring diabetic heart disease -- Electrophysiological methods in the evaluation of diabetic neuropathy -- Clinical assessment of neuropathy, vascular disease and the leg in diabetes -- Research methodologies related to renal complications: structural changes -- Measurement of pressure, flow and other parameters of the peripheral macro- and microcirculation in diabetes -- Conducting clinical trials in diabetic renal disease, including power analysis -- Methods for estimating the kinetics of lipid fuels in vivo -- Methods in protein metabolism in diabetes -- Research methodologies in the evaluation of pancreas and islet cell transplantation -- Survival studies related to diabetes mellitus -- Pitfalls in patient selection and statistical procedures in diabetes research -- How to assess efficacy of oral antidiabetic agents -- Research methodologies of eicosanoid biosynthesis and function in diabetes -- Measurement of components of the renin angiotensin system in humans: relationship with diabetic complications and antihypertensive treatment -- Research methods of cerebrovascular disease in diabetes -- World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki -- Subject Index