TY  - JOUR
T1  - BLood sugar versus urinary sugar
AU  - Wirtschafter ZT
Y1  - 1939/11/04
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1939.02800440056024
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1752
EP  - 1753
VL  - 113
IS  - 19
N2  - To the Editor:— 
    In The Journal June 17 and 24 appears a paper entitled "Blood Sugar versus Urinary Sugar" by Dr. Anthony Sindoni Jr. The author states that:In view of the high incidence of disturbed carbohydrate metabolism frequently escaping detection by examination of the urine for sugar and the serious consequences resulting therefrom, blood sugar estimations, fasting and after meals, should be indispensable in early and latent recognition of the blood sugar disturbances:They should be the governing factor in guiding the insulin dose and diabetic treatment.Control of the hyperglycemia, not the glycosuria, should be the paramount aim of diabetic treatment.The estimation of blood sugar levels is indispensable in the recognition of early and latent diabetes, but once the diagnosis has been made there is a question as to the relative value of blood sugar determinations. Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disturbance not only of
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.02800440056024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800440056024
ER  -