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WITH REPORT OF THREE CASES

HENRY J. JOHN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1926;37(4):489-511.

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According to the figures given by various authors, diabetes occurs in from 10 to 40 per cent of the cases of acromegaly. Even the lowest of these figures is sufficiently high to suggest that this is more than a coincidence, that there must be some common factor underlying both conditions. In going over the older literature one finds that most of the diagnoses of diabetes in these cases have been made on the basis of the urinary examinations for sugar. In considering this subject, therefore, we must bear this point in mind for in the light of more recent work we know that glycosuria is not always a true indication of diabetes.

In an analysis of all cases of pituitary disease which have been seen at the Cleveland Clinic, comprising forty-one cases to date, seven cases of acromegaly were found, diabetes being present in two of these, 28.5 per cent. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Cleveland Clinic.

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