Abstract
In the previous communication the question of sugar tolerance in chronic infectious arthritis was discussed. In the series of cases reported no evidence was found of a diminished sugar tolerance. Furthermore the results of the study tended to prove that the tolerance for dextrose does not vary with the severity of the arthritic process, and also showed that foci of infection apparently have no specific effect on the sugar storage mechanism. It is intended, in the present study, to present the data for a parallel series of cases of the menopause type of degenerative arthritis in which the sugar tolerance test was done coincidently with the tests in the aforementioned series of infectious cases. As previously described, 1 the arthritis of the menopause occurs chiefly in obese, middleaged women at the time of or just after the menopause, and is characterized by the presence of grating knee joints and Heberden's nodes.
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