Post traumatic type 1 diabetes mellitus (insulin-dependent): a case report

Most researchers have studied the influence of life stress as precipitating the onset of type 1 diabetes, but as the relationship between severe psychological trauma and diabetes has been a rarely studied subject in paediatric age group. Here, we report the case of a 10-year-old Libyan boy, without...

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Published inThe Pan African medical journal Vol. 19; no. 328; p. 328
Main Author Karrouri, Rabie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Uganda The African Field Epidemiology Network 27.11.2014
The Pan African Medical Journal
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Case Report
Child
children
diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 - etiology
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 - psychology
Humans
Libya - ethnology
Life Change Events
Male
pathogenesis
Refugees - psychology
Severity of Illness Index
stress
Stress, Psychological - complications
trauma
Tunisia
Libya
Tunisia
pathogenesis
stress
children
Trauma
diabetes
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Summary:Most researchers have studied the influence of life stress as precipitating the onset of type 1 diabetes, but as the relationship between severe psychological trauma and diabetes has been a rarely studied subject in paediatric age group. Here, we report the case of a 10-year-old Libyan boy, without personal or familial diabetes mellitus history, which is presented to Moroccan medico-surgical field hospital, installed in Tunisia for refugees of the Libyan revolution, for type 1 diabetes appeared immediately after severe psychological trauma.
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ISSN:1937-8688
1937-8688
DOI:10.11604/pamj.2014.19.328.5632