Changing the Name of Diabetes Insipidus: A Position Statement of the Working Group for Renaming Diabetes Insipidus.

Arima, Hiroshi; Cheetham, Timothy; Christ-Crain, Mirjam; Cooper, Deborah; Drummond, Juliana; Gurnell, Mark; Levy, Miles; McCormack, Ann et al. · J Clin Endocrinol Metab · 2022

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Abstract

Recent data show that patients with a diagnosis of diabetes insipidus (DI) are coming to harm. Here we give the rationale for a name change to arginine vasopressin deficiency and resistance for central and nephrogenic DI, respectively.

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