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Diabetes (cont.)

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Author: Robert J Ferry, Jr, MD

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

REFERENCE: MedscapeReference.com. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Previous authors and editors: author: Usha Sriram, MBBS, Consulting Staff, Department of Endocrinology, Rush Medical College. Coauthor(s): Micheal D Rush, MD, Assistant Program Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Truman Medical Center. Editors: Arthur B Chausmer, MD, PhD, FACP, FACE, FACN, CNS, Affiliate Research Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, School of Computational Sciences; Principal, C/A Informatics, LLC; Mary L Windle, Pharm D, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine.com, Inc; George T Griffing, MD, Director, Division of General Internal Medicine, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, St Louis University.


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Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a group of disorders characterized by hyperglycemia and associated with microvascular (ie, retinal, renal, possibly neuropathic), macrovascular (ie, coronary, peripheral vascular), and neuropathic (ie, autonomic, peripheral) complications.

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