[Quality control of the self-measurement of blood sugar in unselected type I diabetics. The importance of patient training].

Unselected type I diabetics were hospitalized for group training and treatment programme during which blood-sugar was self-monitored with the Haemo-Glukotest 20-800; quality of self-monitoring improved appropriately. The patients had taken part in either the standard training programme (67 patients) or in the "intensive" training programme (101 patients). At the beginning of the training week, after the first theoretical and practical instructions, the quality of blood-sugar self-monitoring was equally poor among patients of both programmes.

Diet and pump-treated diabetes: a long-term follow-up.

Long-term effects of a liberalized diabetes diet without meal-planning and food-exchange were investigated in lean type-I diabetic patients treated by continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII). Food intake, body weight, HbA1c levels and serum lipids were recorded during conventional s.c.