[Is manioc a diabetogenic factor? Apropos of a case of diabetes mellitus with a large consumption of crude manioc].
The case of a 24 year-old Comorian male patient consuming large amounts of cooked and uncooked cassava and suffering of malnutrition since his boyhood is reported. The patient presented a diabetes mellitus by chronic calcific pancreatitis with retinopathy and neuropathy. The protein deficiency associated with eating uncooked cassava may be recognised as a factor of calcific pancreatitis diabetes. Other factors might be associated such as the environment as well as immunological and genetic characteristics.
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Service de médecine interne, Hôpital général Befelatanana-CHU Antananativo, BP 375, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar.
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D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000209:etiology*; D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000150:complications; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D002365:Manihot; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications; D011488:Protein Deficiency / Q000150:complications