To the Editor: After having read the article "Prognosis in Hyaline-Membrane Disease" by Dr. Mildred Stahlman and her associates in the February 9 issue of the Journal. I found it interesting to reflect on the findings of McCann and his associates, published in the July 7, 1966, issue, presenting data that might be pertinent to Dr. Stahlman's. It was discovered that the manifestations of the clinical respiratory-distress syndrome were evident not only in infants of frankly diabetic mothers (insulin using), but also in those of mothers with aglycosuric gestational diabetes (noninsulin using), characterized only by an abnormal glucose tolerance . . .