Diabetes mellitus

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• Synonyms

  • DM

• Causes

  • Cystinosis
  • Klinefelter syndrome
  • Friedrich ataxia

• Effects

  • Hyperglycaemia
  • Impaired concentrating ability
  • Poorly controlled diabetes
  • Diabetic nephropathy
  • Diabetic neuropathy
  • Diabetic retinopathy
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Pyoderma gangrenosum
  • Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum
  • Lipoatrophy
  • Diabetic dermopathy
  • Autonomic neuropathy
  • Secondary hyperlipidaemia
  • Hypercholesterolaemia
  • Low high density lipoprotein
  • Hypophosphataemia
  • Renal papillary necrosis
  • Retinal vein occlusion
  • Mononeuritis multiplex
  • Oculomotor nerve palsy
  • Charcot joints
  • Intestinal pseudoobstruction
  • Dupuytren's contracture
  • Steatosis
  • Diabetic amyotrophy
  • Oral candidiasis
  • Bowel bacterial overgrowth
  • Granuloma annulare
  • Cheiroarthropathy
  • Mixed motor weakness
  • Raised angiotensin converting enzyme
  • Bilateral parotid swelling
  • Homocysteinaemia
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Rubeosis iridis
  • Small fibre neuropathy
  • Cholelithiasis
  • Low testosterone
  • Carcinoma of pancreas
  • Hydramnios
  • Nerve root lesion
  • Acquired cataract
  • Glaucoma
  • Necrotising fasciitis

• Parents

  • Diabetes
  • Acquired metabolic disease

• Children

  • Type I diabetes mellitus
  • Type II diabetes mellitus
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Maturity-onset diabetes of the young

• Treatments

  • Oral hypoglycaemic
  • Metformin
  • Insulin

• Description

  • "Fasting glucose > 7.0 or rises to above 11.1 (2 hrs after 75g of glucose)"