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The use of vitamin B1 in diabetes mellitus: A clinical study

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The American Journal of Digestive Diseases

Summary and Conclusions

  1. 1.

    Fifteen diabetic patients who have been under treatment in the diabetic outpatient department were given Vitamin B for periods of time, varying from 9 to 34 weeks.

  2. 2.

    Ten patients showed no improvement in their carbohydrate utilization. In five, an improvement in carbohydrate tolerance was obtained. Three improved during vitamin administration and two after discontinuation.

  3. 3.

    The causes of improvement of carbohydrate tolerance in diabetic patients are discussed.

  4. 4.

    A careful analysis of those causes as applied to the five improved cases fails to convince us that the beneficent effects were due to Vitamin B1.

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  1. Mt. Sinai Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Abraham Trasoff

  2. Department of Metabolism, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Charles Bordin

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From the Metabolic Division of Medical Service No. 2, Mt. Sinai Hospital.

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Trasoff, A., Bordin, C. The use of vitamin B1 in diabetes mellitus: A clinical study. Jour. D. D. 8, 1–2 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02999382

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