[The early detection of diabetes mellitus and the active dispensary care of 1200 subjects with a genetic predisposition].

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease with a long-lasting chronic course, attending during its development by complications which affect the state of health and require additional measures from the social and economic point of view. The current strategy consists in the earliest possible detection of disease in groups of population selected according to the existent risk of developing a DM. This action is followed by an active dispensary care and by lessons of health education, aimed at preventing metabolic decompensations and the early occurrence of degenerative chronic complications. Taking into account these considerations in the present paper, authors analyse the possibility of detection of DM in 1,200 subjects genetically predisposed, a special stress being laid on the means of prevention, on the role of active dispensary care and on the place of health education in the therapy of DM and in the prevention of complications of this disease with an invalidating potential.