RT Journal
A1 JOSLIN EP
T1 TReatment of diabetes today
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD June 18
VO 140
IS 7
SP 581
OP 585
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900420001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900420001001
AB The detection of the unknown 1,000,000 diabetic persons should be relatively easy. We know that diabetes is hereditary and that the new million are chiefly the relatives of diabetic persons. Dr. Priscilla White found the incidence of diabetes seven times as great in the relatives of diabetic persons as in nonrelatives. In Florida the incidence of newly discovered diabetes by the United States Public Health Service was four times as great among the relatives of diabetic persons as in their survey of the general population at Oxford. Diabetes is nearly fifty times as common after age 65 as it is under 15 years of age. Moreover, in the old the onset is usually unobtrusive, whereas in the young the violence of the symptoms usually makes the disease evident. Diabetes is overwhelmingly more common in the obese. Occurrence is more frequent in female subjects. The incidence is high in Jews. It