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Diabetes Mellitus: An Unrecognized Complication in the Management of Patients With Mental Illness

Psychiatric patients can have undiagnosed illness due to difficulties accessing the health care system and the lack of guidelines regarding screening recommendations for them. The following case describes a 36-year-old male who presented with a hyperglycemic emergency in the setting of undiagnosed d...

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Autores principales: Espinoza, Diana, Sanchez, Paola A, Junia, Christine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32642358
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8444
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Sumario:Psychiatric patients can have undiagnosed illness due to difficulties accessing the health care system and the lack of guidelines regarding screening recommendations for them. The following case describes a 36-year-old male who presented with a hyperglycemic emergency in the setting of undiagnosed diabetes mellitus.