malnutrition-related diabetes

malnutrition-related diabetes

A controversial diagnosis that the World Health Organization (WHO) regarded in 1985 as a major class of diabetes, seen mostly in tropical developing countries, and divided it into protein-deficient and fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes subtypes. The American Diabetes Association 2000 classification does not mention MRD as a separate entity and the term has been deleted from the current WHO classification of diabetes.