The association of reduced lung functions and diabetes mellitus has been described for many years suggesting that the lung could be a target organ in diabetes mellitus. Chronic obstructive Pulmonary Disease is considered as a disease that goes beyond lung involvement giving it an expression of multisystem inflammatory disease. Diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in diabetics may have difficulties due to superimposition of restrictive abnormality associated with diabetes mellitus.
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