| dc.contributor.author | Okonji, MM | |
| dc.contributor.author | Otieno, CF | |
| dc.contributor.author | Odongo, IS | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-28T05:39:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-28T05:39:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2002-02 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Alcoholism and diabetes mellitus: case report. East Afr Med J. 2002 Feb;79(2):103-5., FREDRICK, DR. OTIENO C. F. , East Afr Med J. 2002 Feb;79(2):103-5., (2002) | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://profiles.uonbi.ac.ke/fredrickotieno/publications/alcoholism-and-diabetes-mellitus-case-report-east-afr-med-j-2002-feb7921 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/26322 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Two male patients with diabetes mellitus and alcohol dependence syndrome are presented. Both were married and in middle age. MI stayed alone in the city while his spouse and two children lived in the rural home. He showed no obvious underlying psychiatric morbidity. FWK was living with his family in the city. He was an alcoholic receiving psychiatric care for alcoholism. They both presented separately at different hospitals with decompensated diabetes following heavy alcohol consumption. The history and clinico-laboratory picture of both patients are presented and brief management programme and outcome are also given. Review of literature on alcoholism and its potential impact on the course and management of diabetes is presented. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
| dc.title | Alcoholism and diabetes mellitus | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| local.publisher | medicine | en |
