Mina T Kelleni
Much emphasis has been given to drugs managing diabetes but unfortunately, so little research has been devoted to drugs sharing in development and/or progression of diabetes. In the era of poly pharmacy and as the longevity of human beings is expanding together with managing of concomitant chronic diseases for the same patient, it?s very likely to find diabetic patients who are receiving one or more of these drugs and after a while, no one can conclude whether these drugs were the cause or they?re just deteriorating diabetes. Every physician, internist and endocrinologist should have a good knowledge about drug induced diabetes mellitus including very popular drugs used for managing hypertension, angina, bacterial infection ? etc. and should also try in diabetic and high risk patients to replace them with safer alternatives whenever possible.
