[The cardiovascular risk profile in persons with normal glucose tolerance with reference to the familial occurrence of diabetes mellitus].

Of 96 persons each with normal glucose tolerance test (oral glucose tolerance test in all deviations "securely normal"), but different hereditary load with diabetes the cardiovascular risk factors overweight, hypertension, hypertriglyceridaemia, hypercholesterolaemia and hyperuricaemia were established and compared according to the principle of biostatistical twin formation. Persons with heredity of diabetes have significantly more frequently overweight (p less than 0.05) than persons without familial load with diabetes. Female test persons with close diabetic relatives are more frequently hypertensives (p less than 0.05) than females without heredity of diabetes. The authors recommend more than hitherto to take into consideration genetic viewpoints within the problems of arteriosclerosis.