This book will form part of the BMJ Books series of evidence-based medicine textbooks, which are designed for the practising clinician. The aim is to provide up to date systematically reviewed evidence with discussion on how best this can be used in clinical practice.

The authorship of Evidence-based Diabetes will include leading diabetologists from around the world who are trained in evidence-based medicine.

Publication of the book is timely following the publication of the British NICE guidelines, which were produced in association with Professor Home and the University of Newcastle Medical School.

Philip Home MA DPhil DM FRCP, Professor of Diabetes Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School, UK

Stephen Colaguiri,