Familial Incidence of Diabetes in Hyperthyroidism
Authors: LAWRENCE V. PERLMAN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1961)

Article1 November 1961Familial Incidence of Diabetes in HyperthyroidismLAWRENCE V. PERLMAN, M.D.LAWRENCE V. PERLMAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-55-5-796 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptHyperthyroidism and diabetes mellitus have certain similarities. Not only are the symptoms of the two conditions (fatigue, anxiety, and weight loss) comparable; hyperthyroid patients are more prone than normal individuals to develop diabetes, and diabetics are more apt to become hyperthyroid. Indeed, several observers have postulated that the two disorders, whose etiologies remain obscure, may be peripheral manifestations of a common central metabolic disorder (1, 2). 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BARTELS E: Heredity in Graves Disease, Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1941, p. 140. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Washington, D. C.Supported in part by a summer fellowship from the James Hudson Brown Fund of Yale University.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Philip K. Bondy, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven 11, Conn. 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