Prevalence of Diabetes in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis
- Wiam I. Hussein, MD, FACP, FACE1 and
- Sethu S. Reddy, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FACE2
- 1Endocrinology Sections, Saad Specialist Hospital, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
- 2Department of Endocrinology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
- Address correspondence to Wiam I. Hussein, MD, FACE, FACP, Section Head, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Saad Specialist Hospital, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. E-mail: husseinw{at}pol.net
Diabetes prevalence is unknown in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of both types of diabetes in MS patients. We reviewed the database from our MS center. A total of 1,206 patients were diagnosed and treated at the center for MS in a duration of 6 years (1991–1997). Of those patients, 92 were diagnosed as having diabetes. Health records were reviewed for sex, race, type of diabetes (type 1 versus type 2), age of onset of MS and diabetes, …
