Diabetes Mellitus and Liver Function

Abstract

CLINICAL observation of many diabetic patients has in recent years failed to reveal a significant incidence of liver disease in the uncomplicated case. This experience has been well summarized by Joslin et al.1: "... in a patient with well-controlled diabetes... who is receiving a completely adequate diet and who is free from complications which apart from diabetes might affect liver function, one may anticipate that the results of liver function tests will agree closely with those of a control group of non-diabetic individuals." Similar conclusions have been expressed by others on the basis of multiple liver-function tests2 , 3 and by . . .