Direct diabetogenic effect of diltiazem?

Iversen, E; Jeppesen, D; Steensgaard-Hansen, F · J Intern Med · 1990

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

In the reported case history, a normotensive and non-diabetic patient with ischaemic heart disease was treated twice with diltiazem. On both occasions diabetes mellitus developed within a few days; at first this was fully reversible, but on the last occasion it was irreversible.

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