Rubella antibodies in diabetes mellitus

17 patients with type I and 30 patients with type II diabetes mellitus were investigated in this study, and the results were compared to those of 25 normal controls. Rubella antibodies were detected in 41% of patients with type I and in 40% of patients with type II diabetes mellitus as compared to 48% in our control group. The difference between the results in the three groups was statistically insignificant [P>0.05]. So the possibility of considering rubella virus as an aetiological factor in diabetes mellitus is excluded