A Comparison of Blood-Sugar and Urine-Sugar Determinations for the Detection of Diabetes

Abstract

General Method of StudyDIABETES case-finding activities have been carried on since June, 1947, as part of a community diabetes control program in the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. This town has a population of approximately 58,000. For 3186 persons over 25 years of age, both blood-sugar and urine-sugar determinations were done as initial screening procedures. A screening procedure is a simple test used to divide people into two groups, — one large group of negatives and a smaller group of positives considered to have a high enough index of suspicion to warrant more detailed examination for the disease in question. . . .