Status of living diabetics with onset under forty years of age
EP Joslin - Journal of the American Medical Association, 1951 - jamanetwork.com
Diabetics are living longer than ever before. So many of them after years of the disease
present distressing complications 1 that this article has been written to show that the
condition of some of our patients in the younger group after a quarter century of the disease
warrants optimism. These 760 patients with diabetes of 25 years' or more duration fall into
four groups:(1) Quarter-Century Victory-Medal diabetics, numbering 23;(2) those with onset
in childhood who have survived more than 30 yr., numbering 40;(3) those with onset in …
present distressing complications 1 that this article has been written to show that the
condition of some of our patients in the younger group after a quarter century of the disease
warrants optimism. These 760 patients with diabetes of 25 years' or more duration fall into
four groups:(1) Quarter-Century Victory-Medal diabetics, numbering 23;(2) those with onset
in childhood who have survived more than 30 yr., numbering 40;(3) those with onset in …