BEFORE 1923, patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus lived with hyperglycemia, dehydration, and semistarvation for several months before they contracted a minor infection and died. It thus became a clinical axiom that diabetics had decreased resistance to infection.1 This the incidence of concomitant disease in the diabetic patients. This article raises more questions than it answers.
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