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This study reports on the clinical pattern of 545 consecutive young diabetic patients with age at onset below 30 years attending a diabetes centre in Southern India. Three hundred and fourteen patients (57.7%) were classified as having non-insulin-dependent diabetes of the young (NIDDY), 119 (22%) as insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM) and 28 (5%) as malnutrition-related diabetes (MRDM); 4% fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes and 1% protein-deficient pancreatic diabetes. The remaining 84 patients could not be classified into any of the above categories. A positive family history of diabetes was more common in NIDDY compared to the other groups (P less than 0.001). While 40.3% of patients with IDDM had age at onset below 15 years, the other types of diabetes were rarely seen in patients younger than this. Body mass index (BMI) did not reliably indicate the MRDM forms of diabetes as 70% of patients with IDDM also had a BMI of less than 18, one of the criteria recommended for the diagnosis of MRDM. C-peptide levels in MRDM were intermediate between the IDDM and NIDDY groups. Microvascular complications were present in all the groups of young diabetics. The frequency was higher in NIDDY patients who also had a longer duration of diabetes. There was an increasing prevalence of complications with increasing duration of diabetes.
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 1988 Jan 07
PMID:Clinical features of diabetes in the young as seen at a diabetes centre in south India. 312 28

NIDDM is a heterogeneous disease and subgroups of NIDDM include MODY (Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young), Malnutrition-related diabetes (MRDM) and Fibrocalculus pancreatic diabetes (FCPD). Endocrine cell population is relatively unchanged in NIDDM: B-cells are reduced by up to 30% and A-cells increased by 10%. Islet amyloid is found in 96% of subjects occupying up to 80% of the islet associated with a reduction in B-cells. Amyloid formation is unlikely to cause diabetes but progressive accumulation increases the severity of the disease. Islet amyloid is formed from the islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), a normal constituent of B-cells, co-secreted with insulin. The causal factors for IAPP fibrillogenesis are unknown but abnormal synthesis or overproduction could be involved: stimulation of B-cell secretion in NIDDM by obesity, hyperglycaemia or suphonylurea therapy may promote amyloidosis and further aggravate islet pathology. A mutation of the glucokinase gene in MODY leads to diminished B-cell secretion but not amyloid formation. Diabetes and mutations of mitochondrial DNA is associated with poorly developed islet structure. Exocrine pancreatic size is reduced and there is evidence of sub-clinical chronic pancreatitis in NIDDM. In MRDM and FCPD, chronic pancreatitis and exocrine necrosis is associated with reduced insulin secretion. Unlike cystic fibrosis where islet amyloid is present in diabetic individuals, amyloid is absent from subjects with FCPD. Pathological changes in the exocrine and endocrine pancreas in NIDDM results from and contributes to the pathophysiology of insulin secretion in NIDDM.
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 1995 Aug
PMID:Pancreatic pathology in non-insulin dependent diabetes (NIDDM). 852 18

Diabetes mellitus presenting in adolescents age 10 to 20 years accounts for less than 5% of all diabetes in tropical African countries. Consequently, inadequate attention is paid to the medical and psychosocial problems attendant on adolescent diabetes in those countries. This article highlights our clinical experience in the management of 30 adolescent diabetic subjects who presented consecutively in the diabetic clinic of a major Nigerian teaching hospital. In these patients, adolescent diabetes appeared heterogeneous, comprising classical insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in approximately 80%; the remaining fraction (20%) was contributed variably by malnutrition-related diabetes (MRDM) and an "atypical" form of IDDM. The most common medical complications were recurrent hypoglycemia, ketoacidosis, and infections. About 80% of the patients were poor, and up to two thirds had to withdraw from school or trade because of recurrent illness. One third of the girls had a history of unwanted pregnancies. Almost all (93%) had a history of general rebelliousness and clinic truancy. Therefore, the high prevalence of acute metabolic decompensation may be related to the increased frequency of psychosocial problems, especially poverty, in these patients. It is suggested that agencies in tropical Africa increase welfare facilities for adolescent chronic disease, and also establish and encourage clinics dedicated to adolescent diabetes care.
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PMID:Clinical experience with adolescent diabetes in a Nigerian teaching hospital. 877 66