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Diabetes mellitus secondary to chronic nonalcoholic pancreatic calcification has been described from several tropical countries, including India. We describe the existence of this entity in the subtropical region-the Kashmir Valley of the Indian subcontinent. Fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes

Tropical calcific pancreatitis is a special type of chronic pancreatitis that has features quite different from those of alcoholic pancreatitis and is seen almost exclusively in tropical countries. It is characterized by recurrent severe pain in the abdomen, insulin-requiring but ketosis-resistant

The tropical calcifying pancreatitis and/or fibrous pancreatitis are responsible for a number of cases of juvenile insulin-dependent diabetes in the Third World countries. World wide distributed in the tropical areas of Asia, Africa and South America, they can also be observed in Europe, in migrants

Chronic pancreatitis is defined by a persistent destruction of the pancreatic parenchyma replaced by fibrosis. The lesions generally start in the exocrine gland, islets being attacked later in the fibrosis. The two most frequent forms are: 1. Chronic calcifying pancreatitis which is a pancreatic

Clinical and biochemical studies were carried out in 33 patients with diabetes secondary to chronic calcific, non-alcoholic pancreatitis (tropical pancreatic diabetes) and in 35 Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetic patients and 35 non-diabetic subjects. Despite lower body mass indices, only 25%

Two categories of diabetes are recognized in the temperate zone--ketosis-prone diabetes requiring insulin and diabetes not requiring insulin. Another unique type of diabetes occurs in the tropics. It has two forms, both different from either form of temperate zone diabetes. Type J and pancreatic