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Tropical diabetes

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Diabetes mellitus associated with chronic malnutrition and, sometimes, chronic pancreatitis.

Whether tropical diabetes exists as a distinct entity is under debate.

While malnutrition may influence the expression of diabetes, the evidence that diabetes can be directly caused by protein deficiency is not convincing.

Also called malnutrition-related diabetes

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