Changing the Name of Diabetes Insipidus: A Position Statement of the Working Group for Renaming Diabetes Insipidus

Recent data show that patients with a diagnosis of diabetes insipidus (DI) are coming to harm. Here we give the rationale for a name change to arginine vasopressin deficiency and resistance for central and nephrogenic DI, respectively.

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Recent data suggests that patients with diabetes insipidus (DI) are being harmed. The authors propose renaming central and nephrogenic DI as arginine vasopressin deficiency and resistance, respectively.