Type 2 diabetes mellitus: An unusual association with Down's syndrome

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Year : 2013 \| Volume : 19 \| Issue : 3 \| Page : 358-359

Type 2 diabetes mellitus: An unusual association with Down's syndrome Sunil Kumar Kota¹, Prabhas Ranjan Tripathy², Siva Krishna Kota³, Sruti Jammula⁴ ¹ Department of Endocrinology, Medwin Hospital, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India ² Department of Anatomy, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ³ Department of Anaesthesia, Central Security Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ⁴ Department of Pharmaceutics, Roland Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Berhampur, Odisha, India Correspondence Address: Sunil Kumar Kota Department of Endocrinology, Medwin Hospitals, Chiragh Ali Lane, Nampally, Hyderabad - 500 001, Andhra Pradesh India Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/0971-6866.120818

Down's syndrome (DS) is known to be associated with autoimmune disease including type 1 diabetes. To the best of our knowledge, there are no reports of DS with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the literature. We hereby report two cases of DS with type 2 diabetes.



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