An overlooked diabetes in a relatively young patient
In the second decade of the 2000s, it is still possible, in an industrial country like Italy, that relatively young people with type 2 diabetes are referred to a diabetologist with complications already underway, due to neglecting the disease for lack of awareness and for refusal to accept the dise...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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AboutScience Srl
2018-07-01
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| Series: | AboutOpen |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.aboutscience.eu/index.php/aboutopen/article/view/156 |
| Summary: | In the second decade of the 2000s, it is still possible, in an industrial country like Italy, that relatively young people with type 2 diabetes are referred to a diabetologist with complications already underway, due to neglecting the disease for lack of awareness and for refusal to accept the disease. We report the case of a patient, referred to the diabetologist by the ophthalmologist who diagnosed severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy and bilateral macular edema (Diabetology).
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| ISSN: | 2465-2628 |