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CAPT. WILLIAM D. DRUCKER, USAF (MC); LT. COL. RAY F. FITCH, USAF (MC); CAPT. J. HARPER GASTON, USAF (MC)

Arch Intern Med. 1962;110(2):199-204.

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In 1939, Marble¹ set forth criteria for the diagnosis of renal glucosuria—proved glucosuria in the postabsorptive state, relative independence of the urine sugar on blood level of glucose, no progression to diabetes for at least 3 years, normal glucose tolerance test, and constancy of fasting glucosuria. If these criteria are accepted, the subsequent development of diabetes mellitus is a rare event. The combined experience of Marble, Robbers and Rümelin, and Wilder,^2-4 numbering several hundred cases of renal glucosuria followed for as long as 64 years, yields no more than 3 patients who later developed diabetes mellitus. In 1950, Callaway⁵ could find only 6 patients in the literature in whom renal glucosuria was later associated with diabetes. Gräfe and Hering⁶ reported 2 more patients, and Reubi⁷ cites one.

Ackerman, Fajans, and Conn⁸ applied Lawrence's⁹ less rigorous criterion for the diagnosis of renal glucosuria—appearance of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Medical Service, USAF Hospital, Biloxi, Miss.; Presently, Visiting Fellow in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York (Dr. Drucker); presently, Chief Internal Medicine Service, USAF Hospital, Lackland, Tex. (Dr. Fitch); present address: Permanente Medical Group, San Leandro, Calif. (Dr. Gaston).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 15, 1961.

The contents reflect the personal views of the authors and are not to be construed as a statement of official Air Force policy.

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