[Evaluation of the assay of serum fructosamine in the surveillance of diabetes in children and adolescents].

Serum fructosamine and glycosylated haemoglobin were measured 4 times over 2 month period (1st, 15th, 30th and 60th days) in 40 young diabetics and in 26 controls. A positive correlation was found between these two parameters at the 15th, 30th and 60th days (0.44 less than r less than 0.

[The association of diabetes and celiac disease: the value of assaying antireticulin antibodies].

The authors studied the specificity and the sensitivity of serum anti-reticulin IgA type antibody determination for the diagnosis of coeliac disease in diabetic patients. They observed a frequency of 11.1% coeliac disease among a group of 54 type I juvenile diabetic patients.

[Platelet aggregation in diabetes mellitus in children].

Platelets-endothelial cells interaction appears to cause vascular damage in diabetes. Platelet aggregation was studied in 24 diabetic children and adolescents (mean age: 12.2 years, mean duration of diabetes: 3.