Vitiligo and diabetes mellitus: a clinical study

ABSTRACT

Sixty patients with vitiligo were subjected to clinical and investigative studies to discover a possible diabetic tendency. Family history of D.M. was found in 30% of vitiligo patients. Patients were subjected to urine analysis, fasting blood sugar, oral glucose tolerance test, augmented cortisone glucose tolerance test, intravenous glucose tolerance test, and intravenous insulin sensitivity test. The results achieved revealed the presence of a relationship between vitiligo and D.M., 46% of vitiligo patients have a prediabetic tendency. A survey done on 200 diabetic patients disclosed an incidence of vitiligo in 4% of them; in 87% of them the viiligo proceeded the onset of diabetes by many years