Assertion: pancreas's function | /r/HasProperty | reduced in patient
Facets:
value: with diabetes mellitus
type: OTHER
value: with several groups
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: While prior to the discovery of insulin this malnutrition was a consequence of failure of nutrient storage rather than digestion, physicians nonetheless suspected that the digestive function of the pancreas might be reduced in patients with diabetes mellitus and several groups started to investigate exocrine pancreatic function in diabetes mellitus once pancreatic function tests became available.