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SUBMITTER: Hart PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5495015 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology 20161012 3
Diabetes mellitus is a group of diseases defined by persistent hyperglycaemia. Type 2 diabetes, the most prevalent form, is characterised initially by impaired insulin sensitivity and subsequently by an inadequate compensatory insulin response. Diabetes can also develop as a direct consequence of other diseases, including diseases of the exocrine pancreas. Historically, diabetes due to diseases of the exocrine pancreas was described as pancreatogenic or pancreatogenous diabetes mellitus, but rec ...[more]