The general practitioners were sent manuals which explained how prompting would operate, and they attended updating sessions on the management of non-insulin dependent diabetes.

Cross sectional study of 101 adults of known birth weight from 47 families which had at least one member with non-insulin dependent diabetes.

Twenty seven subjects had non-insulin dependent diabetes, 32 had impaired glucose tolerance, and 42 were normoglycaemic.

We studied nuclear families in which at least one member had non-insulin dependent diabetes and in which both parents and their children were available for study.

Of the 101 subjects, 27 had non-insulin dependent diabetes, 32 had impaired glucose tolerance, and 42 were normoglycaemic (table).

However, additional genetic or environmental factors leading to more severely impaired β cell function are likely to be necessary for the development of non-insulin dependent diabetes.

In our clinic we have managed 262 pregnancies in 203 women with diabetes over the past five years, 143 of whom had non-insulin dependent diabetes.

Certainly, a reproductive handicap has recently been shown in young Nauruan women with early onset non-insulin dependent diabetes.

This assumption rests largely on the observation of high susceptibility to non-insulin dependent diabetes in populations known historically to have experienced such episodes.

Among the papers is a short report about self monitoring of triglyceride concentrations in non-insulin dependent diabetes in 12 patients.