DIABETES MELLITUS IN FRIEDREICHS ATAXIA
DIABETES MELLITUS IN FRIEDREICHS ATAXIA
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DOI:
10.1136/jnnp.31.3.226
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发表时间:
1968-01-01
影响因子:
11
通讯作者:
ROBINSON, N
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作者:
HEWER, RL;ROBINSON, N
The association of diabetes mellitus with Friedreich's ataxia has been reported from time to time. If such an association were firmly established, it could have important implications for the genetic background and possible aetiology of the two diseases. Rossi (1893) appears to have been the first to describe theconcurrence of diabetes mellitus with Friedreich's ataxia. In 1940, Schlezinger and Goldstein ina survey of the literature found 18 reported cases and added two of their own. Ashby and Tweedy (1953) discovered 11 more cases and re-ported a further pair of siblings. Thoren (1962) was able to discuss a total of 45 cases (five additional ones from the literature andseven of his own). Podolosky, Pothier, and Krall (1964) have recorded two further cases, while Niemann, Pemot, Manciaux, Tridon, Guinoiseau, and Charles (1964) have reported a pre-diabetic glucose tolerance curve in a child aged 8.Most previous papers have simply reported single cases. However, Thoren (1962), in Sweden, made a systematic surveyof 50 patients with Friedreich's ataxia, all of whom were aged 48 years or less. He found nine cases of known diabetes mellitus (an incidence of 18%). He performed an intravenous glucose tolerance test on 18 of his non-diabetic patients and found one minor abnormality. In the present paper we report the frequency of diabetes mellitus in a series of 113 cases of Fried-reich's ataxia. Theseobservations are part ofa wider study of the nosology of Friedreich's ataxia.