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Juvenile-onset diabetes mellitus in a sickle cell anaemia patient
1Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
East African Medical Journal
|August 1, 1990
Abstract:
The case of a 10-year old sickle cell anaemia patient presenting with juvenile-onset diabetes mellitus is reported. The possibility of sickle cell anaemia being a predisposing factor to early onset of diabetes in an individual with a positive family history of the disease is highlighted. A review of pancreatic function in sickle cell anaemia is also undertaken.