| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Diabetes mellitus is a syndrome resulting from a variable interaction of hereditary and environmental factors, and characterized by abnormal insulin secretion and a variety of metabolic and vascular manifestations reflected in a tendency toward inappropriately elevated blood glucose levels, thickened capillary basal lamina, accelerated nonspecific atherosclerosis, and neuropathy (Robbins, 1998).
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