[Diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular system diseases in middle age].

The data on the interrelationship of diabetes mellitus and atherosclerosis are shown. To characterize the frequency of cardiovascular lesions and their different character according to age in patients with diabetes, the results of clinical analysis of 2,540 patients and the findings of thorough clinical and laboratory examination of 1,154 individuals, 20.1% of whom were over 60, are presented.

[The influence of different sugar reducing preparations on several pathogenetic components of diabetic angiopathy].

On the basis of clinico-laboratory examination of 500 patients suffering from diabetes mellitus a comparison was made of the influence of treatment with insulin and sulfanilamides on disturbed metabolic processes promoting development of vascular affections. There were found no differences in the action of insulin and oral agents on the indices of lipid, protein and mucopolysaccharide metabolism and on activity of the enzymes of the pentose-phosphate cycle. Corticosteroid excretion normalized with the compensation of diabetes, irrespective of the type of the sugar-reducing preparations.