Insulin sensitivity in diabetes mellitus.

While the invention of insulin has brought an epoch-making pro gress in the treatment of diabetes mellitus,1) insulin resistance in this disease is reported to be on the increase. Accordingly, there is much literature in which classification of diabetes mellitus has been tried from insulin sensitivity.2) Falta and his associates have done a great deal in this line; for ex ample, insulin tolerance test3) and insulin glucose equivalent test4) were advocated, and especially blood sugar depression curve after insulin in jection, described first by Radoslav5) (1924) and known by his name, has been widely used. On the contrary, Himsworth6) and Grifths7) used simultaneous