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JOHN B. O'SULLIVAN, MD; DAVID HURWITZ, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(6):769-774.

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THE INTERMITTENT nature of some cases of diabetes mellitus has been recognized for many years.¹ Review of the literature ² supports this without question, since remissions are reported even following diabetic acidosis. Admittedly, these remissions are of a more temporary nature and less common in adults than in children. Amelioration in diabetes of less dramatic onset is also reported, but it appears to occur primarily in older individuals.³

Documented improvements in diabetics have, for the most part, been attributed to effective early treatment or to the removal of a causative factor. Remissions have been of widely varying duration, but cures have been denied and generally ascribed to faulty initial diagnoses.⁴ Some authors have cautioned that a fluctuating course in early diabetes could provoke false reliance on particular forms of therapy.^2,3 Nevertheless, the recent reports of remissions in groups of young people were impressive enough to be attributed to a specific . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Prenatal Metabolic and Diabetes clinics, Boston University and Harvard medical services, Boston City Hospital, Boston.

Footnotes
Received for publication Aug 26, 1965; accepted March 9, 1966.

Reprint requests to 745 Massachusetts Ave, Boston 02118 (Dr. O'Sullivan).

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