[Current aspects of diagnosis and therapy of diabetes mellitus]

Additions to the categorisation of the forms of diabetes, new knowledge about genetic facts and facts of immunology concerning heredity, etiology and pathogeny of the diabetes are very important for the innovations as well as the utilization of screenings for type I an type II diabetes. As for the laboratory examinations, the proof of the glucose fixed to the hemoglobin or to the albumin of the plasma has become important. The importance of the intensified insulin therapy with the technical support of pumps or injection facilities is emphasized with reference to the hyperinsulinism as one risk. The therapies with immune suppressive, with inhibitors of glucosidase and aldose-reductase and with the transplantation of pancreas or Langerhans' cells promise enormous improvements in the course of diabetes.