A total of 144 patients underwent both tests. The final diagnosis was primary polydipsia in 82 patients (57%), central diabetes insipidus in 59 (41%), and nephrogenic diabetes insipidus in 3 (2%).

Diabetes Diagnostic and Screening Criteria Reviewed. Laurie Barclay, MD. April 14, 2010. April 14, 2010 — Guidelines for diagnosis and screening for diabetes in the family practice setting are ...

Recently proposed criteria for gestational diabetes will result in the condition being diagnosed in nearly a fifth of all pregnancies.1 In a related article in CMAJ, Retnakaran and colleagues report ...

(HealthDay)—Two patients diagnosed with a genetic form of non-insulin-dependent diabetes developed diabetic ketoacidosis years later, even though a history of diabetic ketoacidosis is normally ...

Central diabetes insipidus: This type occurs due to a reduction or absence of vasopressin. It can be primary central diabetes insipidus, which is present from birth, or secondary, which a person ...

Using “Fair Umpires” such as clinical outcomes to adjudicate in a RCT of new versus old diagnostic criteria, we found significant overdiagnosis associated with the new criteria (5). We estimated that ...

Diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus may sound similar, but they’re two unrelated diseases with different problems and different treatments. WebMD explains the symptoms and how to manage the ...

Diabetes insipidus is where the body loses too much fluid through urination, causing a significant risk of dangerous dehydration and a range of other conditions. The condition takes two main forms ...

An important part of your self-care plan for treating diabetes insipidus will include drinking enough water to not get dehydrated. Medications like desmopressin or thiazide diuretics may also help.

Diabetes insipidus is a rare type of disease that makes you lose too much water through your pee. The condition is usually benign. But some people can die from it.

A copeptin blood test reliably differentiated diabetes insipidus from polyuria-polydipsia, which is very important because the wrong diagnosis and treatment can be life-threatening in both instances.