Diabetes and Deafness, Maternally Inherited, also known as midd, is related to mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes and kearns-sayre syndrome. An important gene associated with Diabetes and Deafness, Maternally Inherited is MT-TE (Mitochondrially Encoded TRNA-Glu (GAA/G)). The drugs 6-hydroxy-2,5,7,8-tetramethylchroman-2-carboxylic acid and Protective Agents have been mentioned in the context of this disorder. Affiliated tissues include eye and retina, and related phenotypes are constipation and type ii diabetes mellitus