VALUE OF ROUTINE BLOOD SUGAR TESTS IN THE DETECTION OF DIABETES MELLITUS
- 11 July 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 152 (11) , 1031-1033
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1953.63690110004011b
Abstract
For the past 30 years, it has been the practice of our group to perform routine blood sugar tests on all new patients. Because we believe that this is an important method of detecting diabetes, this paper is presented in order to illustrate some of the results we obtained. Our method is advocated for general use in office practice. If all physicians who demand that a complement fixation test for syphilis be performed on all patients would obtain a blood sugar test as well, many cases of early diabetes would be detected. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study presents data on the number of new patients in our practice who, solely because the initial blood sugar level was elevated, were later proved to have diabetes. A total of 2,357 consecutive patients entering all services of the diagnostic division of the Cleveland Clinic constitutes the basis of this survey. The majority ofKeywords
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