Arima, H., Cheetham, T., Christ-Crain, M. et al. (8 more authors) (2022) Changing the name of diabetes insipidus: a position statement of The Working Group for Renaming Diabetes Insipidus. Endocrine Connections, 11 (11). e220378. ISSN 2049-3614
Abstract
‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet’ (Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare). Shakespeare’s implication is that a name is nothing but a word, and it therefore represents a convention with no intrinsic meaning. While this may be relevant to romantic literature, disease names do have real meanings, and consequences, in medicine. Hence, there must be a very good rationale for changing the name of a disease that has a centuries-old historical context. A working group of representatives from national and international endocrinology, and pediatric endocrine societies now proposes changing the name of ‘diabetes insipidus’ to ‘arginine vasopressin deficiency (AVP-D)’ for central etiologies, and ‘arginine vasopressin resistance (AVP-R)’ for nephrogenic etiologies. This article provides both the historical context and the rationale for this proposed name change.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | diabetes insipidus; renaming |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Sheffield Teaching Hospitals |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2022 11:00 |
Last Modified: | 22 Nov 2022 11:00 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Bioscientifica |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1530/ec-22-0378 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193632 |