Abstract
1. Measul'ement of cutaneous capillary resistance in fifty eight diabetics aged less than fifty-one years showed a significant lowering of this resistance when compared with a control group of one hundred and seven normals. — 2. In a group of thirty-five diabetics of fifteen years duration twenty-two showed reduced capillary resistance and this was associated with a high incidence of retinal haemorrhages. In the remaining thirteen, capillary resistance was not reduced and retinal haemorrhage was minimal. — 3. A further group of ten diabetics with deteriorating retinopathy had a very low cutaneous capillary resistance. Ten diabetics with no retinopathy at all after fifteen years had high capillary resistance.
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