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Diabetes Mellitus for the Endocrine System: Classification, Assessment, Management and Prevention

An endocrine-system deck classifying diabetes into type 1 and type 2, a steroid-induced type and gestational diabetes from human placental lactogen, then taking each through its causes and risk factors, signs and emergency signs, the pathophysiology of lymphocytic infiltration of the islets in type 1, assessment and diagnosis on the random blood sugar test, management and complications. It closes on prevention and on diabetic ketoacidosis as the consequence of untreated insulin deficiency.

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