Table of Contents

• D E Goldstein

Isn't it time to retire the oral glucose tolerance test for diabetes screening and diagnosis?

• J W Eriksson,
• T Bremell,
• B Eliasson,
• J Fowelin,
• L Fredriksson,
• and Z W Yu

Successful treatment with plasmapheresis, cyclophosphamide, and cyclosporin A in type B syndrome of insulin resistance. Case report.

• G T Ko,
• J C Chan,
• V T Yeung,
• C C Chow,
• L W Tsang,
• J K Li,
• W Y So,
• H P Wai,
• and C S Cockram

Combined use of a fasting plasma glucose concentration and HbA1c or fructosamine predicts the likelihood of having diabetes in high-risk subjects.

• E Bognetti,
• M C Riva,
• R Bonfanti,
• F Meschi,
• M Viscardi,
• and G Chiumello

Growth changes in children and adolescents with short-term diabetes.

• M I Harris,
• R Klein,
• C C Cowie,
• M Rowland,
• and D D Byrd-Holt

Is the risk of diabetic retinopathy greater in non-Hispanic blacks and Mexican Americans than in non-Hispanic whites with type 2 diabetes? A U.S. population study.

• E Barrett-Connor and
• A Ferrara

Isolated postchallenge hyperglycemia and the risk of fatal cardiovascular disease in older women and men. The Rancho Bernardo Study.

• D A Ollendorf,
• J G Kotsanos,
• W J Wishner,
• M Friedman,
• T Cooper,
• M Bittoni,
• and G Oster

Potential economic benefits of lower-extremity amputation prevention strategies in diabetes.

• A J Reichelt,
• E R Spichler,
• L Branchtein,
• L B Nucci,
• L J Franco,
• and M I Schmidt

Fasting plasma glucose is a useful test for the detection of gestational diabetes. Brazilian Study of Gestational Diabetes (EBDG) Working Group.

• K Osei,
• T R Gaillard,
• and D P Schuster

History of gestational diabetes leads to distinct metabolic alterations in nondiabetic African-American women with a parental history of type 2 diabetes.

• B V Howard,
• L D Cowan,
• O Go,
• T K Welty,
• D C Robbins,
• and E T Lee

Adverse effects of diabetes on multiple cardiovascular disease risk factors in women. The Strong Heart Study.

• J P Burke,
• S M Haffner,
• S P Gaskill,
• K L Williams,
• and M P Stern

Reversion from type 2 diabetes to nondiabetic status. Influence of the 1997 American Diabetes Association criteria.

Ethnicity and cardiovascular disease. The incidence of myocardial infarction in white, South Asian, and Afro-Caribbean patients with type 2 diabetes (U.K. Prospective Diabetes Study 32).

• I M Libman,
• R E LaPorte,
• D Becker,
• J S Dorman,
• A L Drash,
• and L Kuller

Was there an epidemic of diabetes in nonwhite adolescents in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania?

• J Drass,
• S Kell,
• M Osborn,
• B Bausell,
• J Corcoran, Jr,
• A Moskowitz,
• and B Fleming

Diabetes care for Medicare beneficiaries. Attitudes and behaviors of primary care physicians.

• P A Hollander,
• S C Elbein,
• I B Hirsch,
• D Kelley,
• J McGill,
• T Taylor,
• S R Weiss,
• S E Crockett,
• R A Kaplan,
• J Comstock,
• C P Lucas,
• P A Lodewick,
• W Canovatchel,
• J Chung,
• and J Hauptman

Role of orlistat in the treatment of obese patients with type 2 diabetes. A 1-year randomized double-blind study.

• T J Berg,
• J Nourooz-Zadeh,
• S P Wolff,
• H J Tritschler,
• H J Bangstad,
• and K F Hanssen

Hydroperoxides in plasma are reduced by intensified insulin treatment. A randomized controlled study of IDDM patients with microalbuminuria.

• F Abbasi,
• M Carantoni,
• Y D Chen,
• and G M Reaven

Further evidence for a central role of adipose tissue in the antihyperglycemic effect of metformin.

• R Loebstein,
• D C Lehotay,
• X Luo,
• W Bartfay,
• B Tyler,
• and G D Sher

Diabetic nephropathy in hypertransfused patients with beta-thalassemia. The role of oxidative stress.

• M A Hofmann,
• S Schiekofer,
• M Kanitz,
• M S Klevesath,
• M Joswig,
• V Lee,
• M Morcos,
• H Tritschler,
• R Ziegler,
• P Wahl,
• A Bierhaus,
• and P P Nawroth

Insufficient glycemic control increases nuclear factor-kappa B binding activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells isolated from patients with type 1 diabetes.

• W Di Nardo,
• G Ghirlanda,
• G Paludetti,
• S Cercone,
• C Saponara,
• M Del Ninno,
• S Di Girolamo,
• P Magnani,
• and M A Di Leo

Distortion-product otoacoustic emissions and selective sensorineural loss in IDDM.

• D Kumar,
• M S Alvaro,
• I S Julka,
• and H J Marshall

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Effectiveness of electrotherapy and amitriptyline for symptomatic relief.

• G S Meneilly and
• D Elahi

Physiological importance of first-phase insulin release in elderly patients with diabetes.

• C J Levy,
• B T Kinsley,
• M Bajaj,
• and D C Simonson

Effect of glycemic control on glucose counterregulation during hypoglycemia in NIDDM.

• S Arora,
• P Smakowski,
• R G Frykberg,
• L R Simeone,
• R Freeman,
• F W LoGerfo,
• and A Veves

Differences in foot and forearm skin microcirculation in diabetic patients with and without neuropathy.

• J A Tuominen,
• P Ebeling,
• and V A Koivisto

Long-term lisinopril therapy reduces exercise-induced albuminuria in normoalbuminuric normotensive IDDM patients.

• J Tuomilehto,
• Q Qiao,
• R Salonen,
• A Nissinen,
• and J T Salonen

Ultrasonographic manifestations of carotid atherosclerosis and glucose intolerance in elderly eastern Finnish men.

• T Ishii,
• T Yamakita,
• T Sato,
• S Tanaka,
• and S Fujii

Resistance training improves insulin sensitivity in NIDDM subjects without altering maximal oxygen uptake.

• Z T Bloomgarden

International Diabetes Federation Meeting, 1997, and other recent meetings. Atherosclerosis and related topics.

• A F al-Jebawi,
• M N Lassman,
• and N N Abourizk

Lactic acidosis with therapeutic metformin blood level in a low-risk diabetic patient.

• T M Kapellen,
• A Dost,
• C Leludas,
• and W Kiess

Patient acceptance and use of an emergency telephone hotline service in pediatric diabetes care.

• J D Lalau,
• J M Race,
• and L Brinquin

Lactic acidosis in metformin therapy. Relationship between plasma metformin concentration and renal function.

• A A Dahl,
• E M Dahl,
• and P E Kelly

Four years after the diabetes control and complications trial report: nonimplementation in high-risk patients.

• A G Rassam,
• J Mcleod,
• M R Burge,
• and D S Schade

Use of the HemoCue blood glucose analyzer in research studies.

• C Donaldson and
• K M Narayan

The cost of diabetes. A useful statistic?

• D Dubois-Laforgue,
• S Caillat-Zucman,
• I Djilali-Saiah,
• E Larger,
• A Mercadier,
• C Boitard,
• J F Bach,
• and J Timsit

Mutations in HFE, the hemochromatosis candidate gene, in patients with NIDDM.

• O Aude Rueda,
• I M Libman,
• N Altamirano Bustamante,
• C Robles Valdes,
• and R E LaPorte

Low incidence of IDDM in children of Veracruz-Boca del Rio, Veracruz. Results of the first validated IDDM registry in Mexico.

• Y Suzuki,
• Y Atsumi,
• and K Matsuoka

Finger infection resulting from self-monitoring of blood glucose and a new aid for reducing risk.

• J Brown,
• H Glauber,
• and G Nichols

Impact on a population-based registry of changing diagnostic thresholds for diabetes.

• S Jain

Dry eyes in diabetes.

• S Nagasaka,
• S Ishikawa,
• N Itabashi,
• K Rokkaku,
• and T Saito

Ketoacidosis-onset type 2 diabetes in Japanese. Association with the widespread distribution of soft drinks and vending machines.

• M B Davidson

Comments on the position statements "Management of dyslipidemia in adults with diabetes" and "diabetic retinopathy".

• D Iafusco,
• F Rea,
• and F Prisco

Hypoglycemia and reduction of the insulin requirement as a sign of celiac disease in children with IDDM.