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
Materias:
Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
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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spelling pubmed-73365752020-07-07 Diabetes Mellitus: An Unrecognized Complication in the Management of Patients With Mental Illness Espinoza, Diana Sanchez, Paola A Junia, Christine Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism 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.  Cureus 2020-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7336575/ /pubmed/32642358 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8444 Text en Copyright © 2020, Espinoza et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Diabetes Mellitus: An Unrecognized Complication in the Management of Patients With Mental Illness
title Diabetes Mellitus: An Unrecognized Complication in the Management of Patients With Mental Illness
title_full Diabetes Mellitus: An Unrecognized Complication in the Management of Patients With Mental Illness
title_fullStr Diabetes Mellitus: An Unrecognized Complication in the Management of Patients With Mental Illness
title_full_unstemmed Diabetes Mellitus: An Unrecognized Complication in the Management of Patients With Mental Illness
title_short Diabetes Mellitus: An Unrecognized Complication in the Management of Patients With Mental Illness
title_sort diabetes mellitus: an unrecognized complication in the management of patients with mental illness
topic Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
url 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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