Noun: juvenile-onset diabetes
- Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
"He was diagnosed with juvenile-onset diabetes at age seven";
- type I diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM, juvenile diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, autoimmune diabetes
Type of: autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder, diabetes mellitus, DM, sugar diabetes