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Diabetes Mellitus: Definition, Classification, Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Diagnostic Criteria

A medicine lecture built on definition and introduction, classification, epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic criteria and management, with diabetes taken as a group of diseases of high circulating blood glucose from defects in insulin production, insulin action or both and as a chronic hyperglycaemia with disturbed carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism. The closing slides are the chronic complications: atherosclerosis and arteriolosclerosis, lipodystrophy as lipoatrophy or lipohypertrophy, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, infections, and the autoimmune conditions that travel with type 1, from coeliac disease, vitiligo and Addison's disease to Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

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