[Gastric secretion in diabetes]. / Stomashnata sekretsiia pri diabet.

Gastric secretion was investigated in 26 patients, mainly with mature age diabetes and mixed type after a maximal stimulation with pentagastrin (6 microgram/kg). No significant difference was established as compared with the healthy subjects. Hypo- and achlorhydria were found in 19.2 per cent of the patients and hyperchlorhydria in 15.4 per cent. Diabetes duration over 5 years, hyperglycemia over 200 mg%, late degenerative syndrome and insulin treatment reduce significantly the majority of the indices of gastric secretion.

[Several functional changes in the livers of patients with diabetes mellitus]. / Vyrkhy naikoi funktsionalni chernodrobni promeni pri bolni sus zekharen diabet

The authors have studied the functional liver state in 107 patients with diabetes mellitus. Various stages of functional liver disturbances were found in a considerable part of them. With a few exceptions, the latter have the highest incidence and severity among the patients with decompensated, with mixed type diabetes and with remote vascular degenerative manifestations. Radioisotope investigations with 131J-Bengal pink, reveals the earliest developed changes in some of the liver functions, as compared with rest of the tests. The functional liver state is recommended to be determined in all diabetics with a view to an early detection of the developed functional disturbances and their timely treatment.