title: Dupuytren's disease in diabetes mellitus.
abstract: Dupuytren's disease (DD) was demonstrated in 169 of 959 diabetics (17.6%) and in 9 of 1,396 non-diabetic patients (0.64%). One hundred and seventy-nine of the 185 patients with DD had overt or latent diabetes mellitus (96.7%). The relative frequency of DD increased with age, the conditions was seldom found under the age of 40. DD should be regarded as a non-hyperglycemic manifestation of diabetes mellitus and its presence in a patient should prompt the investigation of glucose metabolism.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004387:Dupuytren Contracture / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged