Neonatal Diabetes

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus (DM0 presenting as hyperglycemia during the first 6 months of life is a rare disordr that affects all races and ethnic groups and is incrasingly being recognized as a sparate entity. this form of insulin sensitive hyperglycemia has been termed "congenital diabetes Mellitus" or "Neonatal diabetes mellitus (NDM)" and is usually of genetic origin. Though technically, the neonatal period limits itself to the first 4 weeks of life, the term NDM has been used for diabetes with onset up to 6 months of life and most of these case appear to have a monogenic form of inheritile due to a single gene mutation.