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IDDM

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IDDM
abbreviation for
(Medicine) (Medicine / Pathology) insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; a form of diabetes in which patients have little or no ability to produce insulin and are therefore entirely dependent on insulin injections
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Noun1.IDDM - severe diabetes mellitus with an early onsetIDDM - severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
diabetic acidosis, ketoacidosis - acidosis with an accumulation of ketone bodies; occurs primarily in diabetes mellitus
diabetes mellitus, DM - diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria; "when doctors say `diabetes' they usually mean `diabetes mellitus'"
autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder - any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues


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17 (ANI): Diabetes mellitus Type 1 (also known as Type I diabetes, T1D, T1DM, IDDM, juvenile diabetes) is an auto-immune disease that results in the destruction of insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas.
Using a newly developed leptin assay, immunoreactive leptin was measured in fasting and postprandial plasma samples from 27 healthy adults and in samples before and during euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic then stepped hypoglycemic (hourly steps at 85, 75, 65, 55, and 45 mg/dl) clamps from 10 healthy subjects and 11 patients with IDDM.
 
 
 
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