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Definition of Juvenile-onset diabetes

1. Noun. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease.

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Literary usage of Juvenile-onset diabetes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"Only 5 percent of the total diabetic population have juvenile-onset diabetes. The maturity-onset type of diabetes develops in middle age or later years. ..."

2. Diabetes in America by Ronald Aubert (1996)
"Colle E, Siemiatycki J, West R, Belmonte MM, Crepeau MP, Poirier R, Wilkins J: Incidence of juvenile onset diabetes in Montreal—demonstration of ethnic ..."

3. American Indian Task Force Report on the Year 2000: Health Promotion (1993)
"Individuals with Type 1 diabetes or insulin- dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), previously called juvenile onset diabetes, lack the ability to normally ..."

4. Healthy People, 2010: Conference Editionby Donna E. Shalala by Donna E. Shalala (2000)
"Diabetes is classified into four major categories: Type 1 diabetes: (Previously called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus [IDDM] or juvenile-onset diabetes ..."

5. Understanding Gestational Diabetes by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"Another type is referred to as juvenile-onset diabetes (in children) or Type I (in young adults). These individuals usually develop their disease before age ..."

6. Sas/stat 9.1 User's Guideby SAS Institute, Virginia Clark by SAS Institute, Virginia Clark (2004)
"The effect is much more prominent for adult onset diabetes than for juvenile onset diabetes. Output 54.9.2. Inference Based on the Robust Sandwich ..."

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