DIABETES
- 1 December 1925
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1908)
- Vol. 36 (6) , 770-778
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1925.00120180022003
Abstract
For many years it has been known that diabetic patients frequently have marked vascular disturbances, particularly of the lower extremities. Heitz1has recently shown that all of fifty-three diabetic patients showed some definite vasomotor changes, such as cold feet, edema or cyanosis, while thirty-five, or 66 per cent. of the same group, had beginning arteritis, as shown by oscillometry. Joslin2states that 15.1 per cent. of diabetic patients in his series of 3,000 cases died of cardiovascular changes, while 2 per cent. of this number developed gangrene. He quotes Buerger's3statement that diabetic gangrene shows typical lesions of atherosclerosis or arteriosclerosis. "These lesions differ in no way from the lesions of the arteries in arteriosclerotic or senile gangrene, and justify the conclusion that diabetic gangrene is due to an atherosclerotic or arteriosclerotic process." This statement has been generally accepted, but no statement has been found in the literature as toThis publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- THE CAUSE OF DEATH IN DIABETES MELLITUSThe Lancet Healthy Longevity, 1924