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A Dempe

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[Incidence of gestational diabetes and changes in insulin secretion of pregnant women (author's transl)].

The 50-g oGTT was applied to pregnant women suspected of having contracted diabetes. Carbohydrate tolerances were pathological in 23.6 per cent of all probands and in borderline vicinity in 17.9 per cent. The oral glucose tainting test thus worked according to expectation by revealing a relatiively high frequency of disorders of the carbohydrate tolerance. Yet, impaired insulin secretion was established rarely, with high response having been recorded from only seven per cent and delayed insulin secretion from 4.1 per cent. Low response was not found at all. No correlations were found to exist, by the 50-g oGTT, between disorders of the carbohydrate tolerance and insulin secretion. The groups involved differed but little with regard to their IRI mean value curves. Sugar excretion in urine was found to be increased with significance in response to pathological carbohydrate tolerance in early pregnancy and may be used as a complementary criterion for diagnosis.

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[Morphology of the placenta in premanifest maternal diabetes mellitus (author's transl)].

66 placentas of mothers with protodiabetes or of the White-classes A/a, respectively, are investigated morphologically. The results are correlated with the clinical findings. Complications during pregnancy as well as the perinatal mortality (5.7 per cent) are less frequent in early stages before the diabetes become manifest. Severe diabetic disturbances of placental maturation we have found in protodiabetics in 15.4 per cent, in the White-classes A/a in 18.9%. In the White-classe D the frequency is 49.5 per cent. Accordingly, the diagnostic possibilities are smaller than in cases with manifest diabetes mellitus. Diabetic disturbances of placental maturation can be demonstrated already in few cases of the material in protodiabetics and in patients with glucosuria during pregnancy and with suspicion of diabetes mellitus, but without diabetic fetopathy. Therefore in our opinion diagnosis of diabetic metabolic disorder may be possible by some morphologic criterias of the placenta in very early stages of diabetes before clinical manifestation.

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[Incidence of gestational diabetes as well as changes in insulin secretion during pregnancy. 1. Studies on pregnant women suspected of diabetes using the glucose infusion test (GIT)].

Based on the glucose infusion test, we find with 17.9 per cent of a group of anamnestically tainted pregnant women gestational diabetes, and with 5.7 per cent of this group a carbohydrate tolerance with disturbed boundaries. With probands having a carbohydrate tolerance with disturbed boundaries we find a significantly more frequent IRI-high-response. This coincidence of a carbohydrate tolerance in the border range and of an IRI-high-response might correspond to the early asymptomatic stage of diabetes. In the following stages, there will take place a depression of the early insulin phase with a pathological carbohydrate tolerance of the pregnant women in the sense of a gestational diabetes. With probands exhibiting a disturbed carbohydrate tolerance, a diminished depression of free fatty acids is found. The total lipid content and cholesterol are not essentially changed. With women suffering from gestational diabetes urinary sugar excretion is significantly higher than with probands showing a normal carbohydrate tolerance.

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[Liver diseases in diabetes mellitus].

In a number of 3,554 clinically manifest diabetics who were admitted for the treatment of metabolism or other diseases from 1967 to 1974 12.1 per cent of hepatopathies were found. In men the incidence was 15.2 per cent, in women 10.7 per cent. Among these the fatty degeneration of the liver (28.8 per cent) and the cirrhosis (17.4 per cent) were most frequent. Referred to the entirety the result was an incidence of cirrhosis of 2.1 per cent. The confirmation of the diagnosis is performed by biopsy and endoscopy in 92 per cent. In 60 per cent of the examined persons the diagnosis was unknown before admission. There was no correlation to the duration of the diabetes. In the number of patients there appeared above all persons older than 50 to 60 years. The following concomitant diseases occurred: hypertension (33 per cent), coronary diseases (32 per cent), pyelonephritis (17 per cent) and adiposity (13 per cent).

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[Selected social medicine problems of the diabetic patient].

Corresponding publications above all consider social medical problems of the diabetic, which still is in occupation. As more than the half of all diabetics are recipients of pension, we have to engage in them, too. We examined 1397 diabetics. 72% of them were able to get alone in the consulting hour. The rest (28%) had a significantly longer duration of illness and were disabled workers very often. We refer to the insufficient insulin therapy in old diabetics. We demonstrate possibilities for enforcement of the insulin injection.

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