Pancreatogenic Type 3c Diabetes: Underestimated, Underappreciated and Poorly Managed Pancreatogenic Type 3c Diabetes: Underestimated, Underappreciated and Poorly Managed malabsorption, and frequently poor oral diet (to avoid symptoms), including chronic pain; smoking and/or alcoholism), renders the T3cDM patient.
Pancreatogenic diabetes is classified by the American Diabetes Association and by the World Health Organization as type 3c diabetes mellitus (T3cDM) and refers to diabetes due to impairment in pancreatic endocrine function related to pancreatic exocrine damage due to acute, relapsing and chronic pancreatitis (of any etiology), cystic fibrosis.