Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Type II diabetes mellitus
Noninsulin-dependent diabetes
HP:0005978
What it means
A type of diabetes mellitus initially characterized by insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia and subsequently by glucose interolerance and hyperglycemia.
Persons with type II diabetes mellitus rarely develop ketoacidosis.
In everyday care
Most people with this sign do not have a rare disease — it appears in common conditions far more often. These general reference pages cover the same topic:
Rare diseases that can present with this54
Very common80–99%
10- Alpha-mannosidosis
- AREDYLD syndrome
- Atypical Werner syndrome
- Insulin-resistance syndrome type A
- Male hypergonadotropic hypogonadism-intellectual disability-skeletal anomalies syndrome
- Muscular atrophy-ataxia-retinitis pigmentosa-diabetes mellitus syndrome
- Pituitary gigantism
- Retinitis pigmentosa-intellectual disability-deafness-hypogonadism syndrome
- Stimmler syndrome
- X-linked intellectual disability, Van Esch type
Common30–79%
11The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Diabetes mellitus type 2 · Diabetes mellitus Type II · Diabetes mellitus, noninsulin-dependent · NIDDM · NIDDM diabetes mellitus · Non-insulin dependent diabetes · Noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus · Noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
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