[Importance of a self-care system in diabetes mellitus in preventing complications and preserving the patient's work capacity]. / Znachenie sistemy samokontrolia sakharnogo diabeta v profilaktike oslozhnenii i sokhranenii trudosposobnosti bol'nykh.

A system of self-control of the patients nutrition using the V. S. Vorobyov calculator was introduced to prevent early complications in diabetes mellitus patients, 112 patients were followed up during 5 months. 35 of them were administered insulin, 65 sugar-reducing drugs per os, and 12 patients were given diets. Introduction of the self-control system in the nutrition of diabetes mellitus patients made it possible to achieve stable compensation in 89.4% patients, reduction of the dose or withdrawal of oral sugar-reducing drugs, and reduction of the insulin dose. It is suggested to devise a unified system for training diabetes mellitus patients, with a special section on training self-control methods in nutrition.