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Insulin as a Tool in Factitious Dysglycemia

Factitious dysglycemia is a type of self-inflicted harm that includes deliberate attempts to induce hypo- or hyperglycemia as a sickness to gain empathy. We report the cases of three Iraqi women with different motives to induce factitious dysglycemia. Two of them had used insulin to induce hypoglyce...

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Autores principales: Odhaib, Samih A, Almaliki, Qussay N, Mansour, Abbas A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8140372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34040920
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14622