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DR. UNGER: I think part of the dilemma that we face may be factitious and a nomenclatural dilemma resulting from inadequate definition of the term “diabetes”. This has been argued for decades. Probably within this room we would not all agree on what is “diabetes”. If, for example, one defines diabetes mellitus as a disease associated with an increased morbidity and mortality attributable to the specific vascular lesions, one identifies a population entirely different from a group of mildly hyperglycemic elderly persons who live to be 80 or more. We should consider how to sub-classify the hyperglycemic states. This, I think is what Dr. Levine was really suggesting at the end of his discussion.
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Wolf, S., Berle, B.B. (1975). The Nature of Diabetes. In: Wolf, S., Berle, B.B. (eds) Dilemmas in Diabetes. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 65. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0952-9_2
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