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Diabetes mellitus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | Diabetes is in the top 10, and perhaps the top 5, of the most significant diseases in the developed world, and is gaining in significance (see big killers). |
 | | Diabetes is often detected when a person suffers a problem frequently caused by diabetes, such as a heart attack, stroke, neuropathy, poor wound healing or a foot ulcer, certain eye problems, certain, or delivering a baby with macrosomia or hypoglycemia. |
 | | The discovery of the role of the pancreas in diabetes is generally credited to and Oskar Minkowski, two European researchers who, in 1889, found that when they completely removed the pancreas of dogs, the dogs developed all the signs and symptoms of diabetes and died shortly afterward. |
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