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ARTERIOSCLEROSIS IN THE YOUNG DIABETIC PATIENT
H. CLARE SHEPARDSON, M.D.
Arch Intern Med. 1930;45(5):674-689.
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By the addition of insulin to the armamentarium for diabetic therapy, the span of life, relatively short heretofore, has been materially lengthened; consequently, a more exact knowledge of the effects produced by the long-continued presence of the disease is now obtainable.
Perhaps the most significant consequence of this increased longevity in the diabetic patient has been to make more plainly evident the interesting sequence of arteriosclerosis on diabetes. Is this a phenomenon due simply to age, or are there signs of its approach in the young? In this paper is recorded evidence bearing on this point, obtained in studying the effects diabetes of five years' duration has on persons under 40 years of age.
Arteriosclerosis is demonstrable in every patient with diabetes past middle life, according to Allen,1 and at any age, according to others, providing the disease has been present for ten years or longer. Autopsies on fifty-two of
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SAN FRANCISCO
Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Aug. 26, 1929.
Read before the Section on Practice of Medicine at the Eightieth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Portland, Ore., July 12, 1929.
This study was made possible through the courtesy of Dr. Elliott P. Joslin. Many of the patients have been mentioned elsewhere and the case numbers given are from his series. I am grateful to Dr. Morrison and Dr. Bogan of the New England Deaconess Hospital Staff, who made and interpreted the roentgen studies; to Miss Hazel Hunt for the various chemical examinations, and to Dr. Root, Dr. White and Dr. Curtis, associates of Dr. Joslin.
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