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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
"Diabulimia" is a little known but dangerous practice in which type 1 diabetes patients, mostly women, withhold insulin in order to lose weight.
The American College of Endocrinology (ACE) has produced a short instructional video about diabulimia with the message that the disorder can be overcome.
Although the term diabulimia is relatively new, the disorder is not, Jeffrey R. Garber, MD, a past president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), told MedPage Today.
He first encountered the disorder years ago, when a group of patients with diabetes seemed to be experiencing diabetic complications, such as gastropathy and autonomic neuropathy, that were much too early for the course of their disease.
"These complications were typically seen in patients who had the disease for 10 to 20 years. But these women had it for less than 10 years," said Garber, who is at Harvard Medical School in Boston
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AACE/32961
The American College of Endocrinology (ACE) has produced a short instructional video about diabulimia with the message that the disorder can be overcome.
Although the term diabulimia is relatively new, the disorder is not, Jeffrey R. Garber, MD, a past president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), told MedPage Today.
He first encountered the disorder years ago, when a group of patients with diabetes seemed to be experiencing diabetic complications, such as gastropathy and autonomic neuropathy, that were much too early for the course of their disease.
"These complications were typically seen in patients who had the disease for 10 to 20 years. But these women had it for less than 10 years," said Garber, who is at Harvard Medical School in Boston
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AACE/32961