[Correlation between beta-thromboglobulin and metabolic compensation in diabetes type I]

In 37 type I diabetic out-patients without any apparent vascular complication and in 9 diabetics with ketoacidosis we have studied the behavior of beta-TG and of glycemia, GSP and HbA1 which are indexes of the short, medium and long-term glycemic control, respectively. In the out-patients beta-TG was found to be correlated only with the GSP. During the recovery of glycemic control, a progressive decrease in the level of beta-TG was found. Therefore, we conclude that also the metabolic derangement of diabetes takes part in the platelet activation.