Diabetes, Vol 24, Issue 11 1027-1031, Copyright © 1975 by American Diabetes Association
Diabetic complications in a patient with coexisting anterior hypopituitarism
RH Greenwood, JT Ireland, DH Jones and RF Mahler
We present a patient who developed insulin-requiring diabetes several years after the onset of symptoms of anterior hypopituitarism. It is likely that the hypopituitarism protected him against the development of diabetic retinopathy and glomerular basement membrane thickening but not against neuropathy and atheroma. The significance of this in relation to the growth-hormone-microangiopathy hypothesis is discussed.
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