Steel J M, Gray R S, Clarke B F
Br Med J. 1979 May 19;1(6174):1303-5. doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6174.1303.
The birth weights of infants born to patients with insulin-dependent diabetes (IDD) and insulin-independent diabetes (IID) before the disease was diagnosed were compared. An appreciable excess of infants above the 90th centile for weight was found, the proportions being 27% of infants born to mothers with IDD and 30% of those born to mothers with IID. These findings suggest that many patients with both types of diabetes have a prolonged period of metabolic abnormality before overt symptoms of diabetes arise and that the apparent acute onset of the disease in patients who are insulin dependent is illusory.
对胰岛素依赖型糖尿病（IDD）患者和非胰岛素依赖型糖尿病（IID）患者在疾病确诊前出生的婴儿的出生体重进行了比较。发现体重超过第90百分位数的婴儿明显过多，IDD母亲所生婴儿的这一比例为27%，IID母亲所生婴儿的这一比例为30%。这些发现表明，许多这两种类型糖尿病的患者在糖尿病明显症状出现之前有一段较长时间的代谢异常，而且胰岛素依赖型患者疾病看似急性发作是虚幻的。
