Is manioc a diabetogenic factor? Apropos of a case of diabetes mellitus with a large consumption of crude manioc
Ranivontsoarivony, M.; Noronavalona, A.; Raharison, N.; Rajaona, H.R.
Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique 94(4): 312-314
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9085 PMID: 11845523 Document Number: 536891
The case of a 24 year-old Comorian male patient consuming large amounts of cooked and uncooked cassava and suffering of malnutrition since his boyhood is reported. The patient presented a diabetes mellitus by chronic calcific pancreatitis with retinopathy and neuropathy. The protein deficiency associated with eating uncooked cassava may be recognised as a factor of calcific pancreatitis diabetes. Other factors might be associated such as the environment as well as immunological and genetic characteristics.