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ALCOHOLISM AND DIABETES MELLITUS: CASE REPORT
Abstract
Two male patients with diabetes mellitus and alcohol dependence syndrome are presented.
Both were married and in middle age. MI stayed alone in the city while his spouse and two
children lived in the rural home. He showed no obvious underlying psychiatric morbidity.
FWK was living with his family in the city. He was an alcoholic receiving psychiatric care for
alcoholism. They both presented separately at different hospitals with decompensated
diabetes following heavy alcohol consumption. The history and clinico-laboratory picture of
both patients are presented and brief management programme and outcome are also given.
Review of literature on alcoholism and its potential impact on the course and management
of diabetes is presented.
Both were married and in middle age. MI stayed alone in the city while his spouse and two
children lived in the rural home. He showed no obvious underlying psychiatric morbidity.
FWK was living with his family in the city. He was an alcoholic receiving psychiatric care for
alcoholism. They both presented separately at different hospitals with decompensated
diabetes following heavy alcohol consumption. The history and clinico-laboratory picture of
both patients are presented and brief management programme and outcome are also given.
Review of literature on alcoholism and its potential impact on the course and management
of diabetes is presented.
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